“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.”
― Saga, Volume 6
― Saga, Volume 6
“You don’t look like a monster.”
“I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”
― Crooked Kingdom
“I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”
― Crooked Kingdom
“I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.”
― Always and Forever, Lara Jean
― Always and Forever, Lara Jean
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