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“I hate you," I breathe into his mouth. "I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“The answer to your first riddle,” I told him. “If yes is no and once is never,
then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two.” I drew out my reply, not
bothering to explain how I’d arrived at my answer”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned.”
― Holly Black

“Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.”

He looked at me like the act of doing so was painful and sweet. “It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit