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“A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.

Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.

“Then I’d be alone, too," he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours. I will be it.”
― Captain Flint

“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm