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“So long as you can hear the waters, everything seems possible: that the sun is the moon, that a star is a cloud, that dusk is dawn, and everything is both hallowed and haunted at the same time.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“Keep swimming. Or if that’s too hard, at the very least, float.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“You want me to stay the heir while you two go off somewhere? And then I can step down, be de-princed, whatever?”
“Exactly that,” says Cardan.
“Like on a vacation?”
Cardan snorts.
“I don’t understand,” Oak says. “Where are you going?”
“A diplomatic mission,” says Cardan, leaning back on the cushions. “After that last little rescue, Nicasia has demanded we honor our treaty, meet her suitors, and witness the contest for her hand and crown. And so Jude and I are headed to the Undersea, where we will go to a lot of parties and try very hard not to die.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“I was an elder sister before I was a wife, and for longer, and that’s a shape I can’t easily shake.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots