LOBA

“Why do you have this expectation that life will make concessions for you?' She scowled. 'We are not promised ease, comfort, or fairness. Only pain and death.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Suffer the fate, for all else is delusion.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“She recognized the way he was looking at her. It was how she’d once looked at Altan. It was the way she’d seen Daji look at Riga—that look of wretched, desperate, and reproachful loyalty. It said, Do it. Take what you want, it said. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you. Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Sometimes she still said things that wounded me. And not because they were lies.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide