Leigh Bardugo

There’s no time to constantly be apologizing for existing. But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.

She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.

“I thought you wanted to go.”

“I wanted you to ask me to stay.”

“You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?” I asked as I closed the book’s cover and headed for the door. “They always end up dead.”

“I have loved you all my life, Mal,” I whispered through my tears. “There is no end to our story.”

I considered shoving him over the railing. Sure, he was hundreds of years old, but could he swim?

“Do you fear me, Alina?”

still the same heart, Mal. It’s still yours

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