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“She was grieving her life as she never had before, and it was all this monk's fault for having conjured the impossible fantasy of a world in which she was free to desire.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“No one should have to sit and suffer and pretend to be someone they’re not because it’s easier, or because no one wants to help them fix it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“I was a collection of hyphens and bilingual words. Always caught in between. Two schools, two languages, two countries. Never quite right or enough for either. My dreams were funded by a loan made long before me, and I paid it back with in guilt and success. I paid it back by tending a garden whose roots I could not reach”
― Nina Moreno, Don't Date Rosa Santos

“She didn't just want greatness. She wanted the world.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun