“She pronounced Liese’s name without any particular love or hatred, just a girl she had known, and for months afterward, maybe forever afterward, I was afraid that someday she would say my name that way too.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“What does it matter? They’re coming, and we’re staying, and at the end of the day whoever is alive is the side that wins. War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Don’t try to speak,”
― The Dragon Republic
― The Dragon Republic
“I don’t need your pity. I need you to kill them for me. You have to kill them for me,” Venka hissed. “Swear it. Swear on your blood that you will burn them.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Go ahead, break my heart. I don’t mind. You’re a flame I would happily let burn me alive.”
― If I Have to Be Haunted: A Snarky YA Contemporary Fantasy About a Ghost Speaker and Her Impossible Nemesis
― If I Have to Be Haunted: A Snarky YA Contemporary Fantasy About a Ghost Speaker and Her Impossible Nemesis
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