Melissa

“Well then," said Lazlo, wry. "It's a good thing we were always such excellent friends, working together for the good of all."

It mightn't have been true before, but perhaps it could be.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“She hadn’t known she was crushed until she wasn’t, and she didn’t know she was fragmented until she became whole”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King