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“Silence fell between the two couples. Even the Storian faltered, unsure who was defending who anymore. “Don’t mind me,” Rafal prodded, smiling. “Who needs a villain when you three have each other?”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now