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“Where were you?” she asked.
“I was killing innocent maidens and kicking puppies.”
“Jacks, that’s not funny.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“She remembered days of exhaustion when all she’d wanted was a kind word, a teardrop’s worth of empathy.
Choice. She had a choice.
'You don’t have to be like her,' Yumi thought. 'You really don’t.'
Such a novel idea, and so much harder to do than she would ever have assumed. Still, Yumi forced out the words. The ones akin to those she always wished she could have heard.
“It’s all right,” she whispered. “I know you’re trying. That’s what matters.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“He held her with the type of intensity that only happens when a person wants something that isn't quite theirs.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“I do not want you dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tries.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After