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“But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Perhaps the key to being content, even without a past, is to keep your eyes firmly on the present moment, and looking no further than what was most probably around just the very next bend—tonight, a fire—and not anticipating beyond that, or allowing oneself to cast backward, into the great black void of before.”
― Elana K. Arnold, Damsel: A Printz Honor Book—A Dark YA Fantasy Where a Rescued Uncovers the Deadly Truth Behind Dragon Legends

“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King