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1 " Everything about the house was rich, and dense, and rooted. It was everything I wasn’t. Even the air, with its distinct smell of oak wood and sage, spoke to its identify and its history. I couldn’t help but feel small here. Overwhelmed. Incompatible. "
― Bianca Scardoni , Inception (The Marked, #1)
2 " I hadn’t even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell. "
3 " The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend. "
4 " Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie. "
5 " One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage. "
6 " The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend. They shape the world around you with well-constructed lies, entombing you in the gossamer of their deceit. You’ll never know their true face, for they shed their masks in layers—meticulous and devious, like the skin of an ever-changing snake. "
7 " Be careful who you trust, for even the Devil was once an Angel. "
8 " And I didn’t want to think about that. I didn’t want to exist inside that hopelessness. I just wanted to sink into this stolen moment with him and keep our doomed reality at bay. "
― Bianca Scardoni , Iniquitous (The Marked, #3)
9 " It was false hope, and I didn’t want any part of it. "
10 " I walked hand in hand with my enemy, allowed their kiss of death to linger on my lips while the world disintegrated around me. I couldn’t see through the smoke and mirrors; too consumed with fighting a destiny I didn’t want; too afraid to let go of a life I wasn’t meant to have. "
11 " It was nothing like what I’d dreamed of when I was a little girl—what I had hoped for myself growing up. But it was the only life I had, and it was mine. The days of waiting around for someone else to ride in and save the day for me were over. People couldn’t be trusted. They lied. They cheated. And then, when everything you were and hoped to be shattered apart into a million pieces, they left. But "
― Bianca Scardoni , Invidious (The Marked #2)
12 " The steep descent into Hell is always paved with good intentions. "
13 " I was done with trying to fit into everyone’s preconceived box of who I was supposed to be. I was going to live my life my way, however short-lived it may be, and I wasn’t asking for permission anymore. "
14 " I’m bonded to Dominic. "
15 " The butterflies began waltzing in my belly again, this time to the sweet melody of his words. Words that were meant for me. I "
16 " It quickly became my way out; my escape from captivity. I didn’t have to live inside my pain anymore. I could live inside my books, each one taking me further and further away from the barred windows that held me prisoner. I "
17 " So much of who I was had become lost, diluted, fragmented. I was being pulled and stretched in every which way, dragged in a million directions with the expectations of the world sitting heavy on my center like a concrete paperweight I couldn’t shake off. What "
18 " The cruel world slipped away from me, and with it went all the other bad things in my life; "
19 " Everyone’s afraid of something, Jemma. It doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you’re alive. It takes real courage to feel that fear and do it anyway.” “You "
20 " I could easily fall in love with the way he was looking at me. Like I was something special; something worth fighting for. “You "
