Margaret

“But what if I actually am becoming besotted with him?
Cardan is more knowledgeable than I am at love. He could use that against me, just as I asked him to use it against Nicasia. Perhaps he found a way to turn the tables after all.
Kill him, a part of me says, a part I remember from the night I took him captive. Kill him before he makes you love him.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“I have said that he has the power to deliver a compliment and make it hurt. So, too, he can say something that ought to be insulting and deliver it in such a way that it feels like being truly seen.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King