Teresa

“Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“But that's also a form of barbarism, the absence of fear for oneself.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“Inside, the horror he felt when she spoke those words— have you ever wondered if anyone truly loved you— hasn’t faded, but he can hide that. Easily. For the first time, he hates how easily. He hates that he can fold himself up so tightly in his own skin that there’s nothing real about him on the outside.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne