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I鈥檝e seen very little of my baby brother since he arrived three months previous, just enough to marvel at, firstly, how strange and shriveled he looks, like a tomato that鈥檚 been left out in the sun for the summer, and, secondly, how someone
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“All my life,鈥 she said, 鈥淚 have been told 鈥榞o鈥 and 鈥榗ome.鈥 I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man鈥檚 servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale

“I won't let your ignorance silence my pain”
― Children of Blood and Bone
― Children of Blood and Bone

“Sasha looked at his sister. He had never thought of her as girlish, but the last trace of softness was gone. The quick brain, the strong limbs were there: fiercely, almost defiantly present, though concealed beneath her encumbering dress. She was more feminine than she had ever been, and less. Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower

“We who live forever can know no courage, nor do we love enough to give our lives.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale

“There is no magic. Things are. Or they are not.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
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