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"Sometimes you have to begin far away from the answer and then down-spiral back to it. Writing is the act of discovery. You want to discover your relationship with a topic, not the dictionary definition ."

"Be specific. Don't say "fruit." Tell what kind of fruit-- "It is a pomegranate." Give things the dignity of their names."

"Now that Kiva and Jaren were back to being... Kiva and Jaren" 🥹

"She had seen a different side of him, as if he were a prism that had turned just slightly, his normal white light bursting into a rainbow of colors."

"I better not fucking die from a giant pumpkin."

"...so Jaren..."

"Everything I thought, everything I had planned and wanted... It's gone. All I have left is my king, and this ridiculous, slim scrap of hope that we survive this war and I can find a way to make something of it." "Of what?" "Of everything that's crumbled in my hands. Everything."

"And Manon understood in that moment that there were forces greater than obedience, and discipline, and brutality. Understood that she had not been born soulless; she had not been born without a heart."

"I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride."