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“Do you think of me as some all-controlling harpy wife?”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“Really?" Juliette demanded through the glass door. "You climbed my house? You couldn't have simply thrown a few pebbles?"
Roma looked down into the gardens below, "You don't have any pebbles.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Like twin statues reaching for each other, they both fell asleep at last.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“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