There is a cost, always, to making difficult choices.
The key is making sure that cost is not regret.
Monsters are real — they just look like men with dreams.
— Darkling
🕯️ Time doesn’t heal all — especially when you’ve outlived your own soul.
— General Kirigan
Pain is as much a part of life as breath.
— Zoya Nazyalensky
Better terrible truths than kind lies.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom.
The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.
-Shadow and bone