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“I have felt every loss you have suffered. I have seen all you have endured and know what it will cost you to conquer what you feel is insurmountable. But you must endure.”

“I woke this morning with… a deeply rooted ache radiating from the center of my chest that felt as though someone had snatched a piece of my lungs while I slept.”

“In every universe it’s you for me.” 🥹

"To the quiet girls with stories in their heads. To their dreams—and their nightmares."

“She was not afraid.”

“Four blinks. I am here. I am with you.”

“The world will be saved and remade by the dreamers.”

“a tattoo on my wrist and my heart in my throat.” 🥹

“And yet, for some reason, it felt like that was exactly where they were supposed to be. Like his lonely and her lonely fit perfectly into the empty spaces at the other’s side, saying nothing, asking nothing, just keeping each other company.”

Her eyes gleamed with unshed tears. “Why do you find it so easy to be kind to me and so difficult to be kind to yourself?”

“What if we go on, he said, only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?

Then it is not the end, she said.”

“I miss you. Every day I miss you…. I never told you how I felt. But I loved you, and I think a part of me will always love you. Maybe you were my mate and I never knew it. Maybe I’ll spend the rest of my life wondering about that. Maybe I’ll see you in the Afterworld, and then I’ll know for sure. But until then I’ll miss you and I’ll wish you were here.”

“If you’re a monster, I’m a monster.”

“The absence swallowed me whole and left nothing behind but emerging chords and painful lyrics that bubbled from a crack in my heart so deep it was fathomless.”

“You do not apologize for defending the people you care about.”

“Magic, savage and unforgiving, erupted out of her…. and with a battle cry that shattered through the mists, she plunged Damaris into the earth.”

“He hadn’t wept when … died, or when he’d thrown … in the dungeons, or even when she returned with …, utterly different from the woman he had grown to love so fiercely. But when he walked out, leaving that damning will behind him, he didn’t even make it to his own room. He barely made it into an empty broom closet before the sobs hit.”

“A lifetime, and in that time, she has learned to decipher the marks well enough, can make sense of what she reads. But she has never understood the draw of doing it for pleasure…. Hector went on such a tear about how she simply hadn’t found the right story, and how when she did, she’d understand.”

“Libraries were full of ideas — perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

“For so long, almost no one understood how I’ve felt…. It is like trying to describe the color blue to someone who has never seen it. And then you come along and it’s like you are describing the color blue to me and I feel such relief. I’d have followed you anywhere just for that.”