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“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom

“Please wake me,” he drawled, “when we are finished fleeing.”
“You couldn’t follow?”
“Dogs follow,” he said, in such a horrified tone she didn’t bother arguing.”
― Plain Kate
“You couldn’t follow?”
“Dogs follow,” he said, in such a horrified tone she didn’t bother arguing.”
― Plain Kate

“Of course... I still wonder about every stranger who gives me a knowing look. About every cat who watched me too closely. I can only hope I reached her in some small way. I can only hope that if she does come back, she'll know me for who I am. A friend.”
― Nimona
― Nimona

“Tell me, do you have family near?” Miss Addie asked. “I’m an orphan,” Theta said. “You’re wrong.” The old woman blinked up at the ceiling, her fingers waving in the air. “You do have family. I see it in your aura. They’re… they’re all around you.”
― Before the Devil Breaks You
― Before the Devil Breaks You

“I think of my father - not him swinging at me, but of all the times he's told me how pathetic I am. How useless and hopeless and embarrassing I am, good for nothing and will amount to nothing and nothing, nothing, nothing - reason after reason until I had begun to believe it wasn't worth putting up my hands.
And here's Scipio, telling me I'm worth defending.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
And here's Scipio, telling me I'm worth defending.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
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