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“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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“That has to be the best part of being in love—the feeling of having a home in someone else’s brain.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“There is no banquet too abundant for a starving man.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“This action will have no echo.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom