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“Scarlet's shoulders slumped. "I need him as much as he needs me. But that doesn't make it love."
Winter lowered her lashes. "Actually, dear friend, I suspect that is PRECISELY what makes it love.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“She reminds me of…me.” “Then clearly she can’t be trusted.”
― Ally Carter, Perfect Scoundrels

“Why do this to yourself? How does it make anything better?”

“It does not make anything worse.”

“It makes you worse. Why can’t you just … do good things with it?”

Winter laughed against the strain of the delusion. “They all believe they are doing good.” Her head fell to the side and she watched Scarlet with her bleary eyes. “My stepmother is not only powerful because the people fear her, she is powerful because she can make them love her when she needs them to. We think that if we choose to do only good, then we are only good. We can make people happy. We can offer tranquility or contentment or love, and that must be good. We do not see the falsehood becoming its own brand of cruelty... who am I to presume what is good for others?”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Broken isn't the same as UN-fixable”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter