Jillian

“Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I would have done anything, anything, to take the weight of that pain off her shoulders before it crushed her into dust. But I knew better; there was no real relief from it. You just had to be willing to let the people around you serve as supports, and take their share of it when it seemed too much, too heavy, to hold on your own.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“But still, somehow, I feel a pull to him. I remember the burdened boy who gave me a silver coin when I was nothing. With that one gesture he changed my future, and destroyed his own.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword