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“I need no protestations of your feelings. Love can be lost, and I am done with losing.”

“I need no protestations of your feelings. Love can be lost, and I am done with losing.”

“You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”

“You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”

“There is a fine line between a saint and a witch, and I wonder if you are prepared to walk it.”

“There is a fine line between a saint and a witch, and I wonder if you are prepared to walk it.”

“Her conviction, born of long days and longer nights, was that if the world

“Her conviction, born of long days and longer nights, was that if the world contained magic at all, then it could not also contain their war.”

“It was so much easier to hate a man than a system: vast, inhuman, bloodstained.”

“I would take anything she chose to give me—the tiniest fraction or her entire world. I would take her for a single night knowing that I’ll lose her by morning, and I would hold on to her and never let go. I would take her healthy, or sick, or tired, or angry, or strong, and it would be my fucking privilege. I would take her problems, her gifts, her moods, her passions, her jokes, her body—I would take every last thing, if she chose to give it to me.”

“It never occurred to her to doubt her welcome. Such was the gift of a child raised with love.”

“It never occurred to her to doubt her welcome. Such was the gift of a child raised with love.”

“No such thing as luck. Just angels and demons putting their thumbs on the scale.”

“No such thing as luck. Just angels and demons putting their thumbs on the scale.”

“Athena, the dead muse. And I, the grieving friend, haunted by her spirit, unable to write without invoking her voice. See, who ever said I wasn't

“Athena, the dead muse. And I, the grieving friend, haunted by her spirit, unable to write without invoking her voice. See, who ever said I wasn't a good storyteller?”

“Your sister may have inherited your father’s gift for strategy, but you're the one who got his bloodlust.”

“Your sister may have inherited your father’s gift for strategy, but you're the one who got his bloodlust.”

“I made you into my private Christ, supplicated with my own dark devotions.”

“I made you into my private Christ, supplicated with my own dark devotions.”

“I believe there are far more possibilities than happily ever after or tragedy. Every story has the potential for infinite endings.”

“I believe there are far more possibilities than happily ever after or tragedy. Every story has the potential for infinite endings.”