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“That was the thing neither Roja nor the señoras understood. Sometimes what a story needed was not a girl who would do what the prince told her, who would content herself with meeting him only in the dark, who would not question why she must not open her eyes. Sometimes a story needed the girl who would find him among the crumbling stones where he did pretending all o fit was a castle. It needed the girl who took the prince’s orders and crushed them between her back teeth, who bound his wrists if that was what it took to set him free.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“You’ve reached that certain age where many boys seem to just sort of fold up their better judgment and set it aside for a few years.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“My dear friend, the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics? - Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“This is the thing I learned from loving a transgender boy who took years to say his own name: that waiting with someone, existing in that quiet, wondering space with them when they need it, is worth all the words we have in us.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore