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1 " Something young and yielding and fragile has fallen apart within my soul, crumbling into countless irreparable pieces. "
― Laura E. Weymouth , A Treason of Thorns
2 " Perhaps my House is broken, but we are a matched set, split apart in the same place, and a broken girl is just the things for a broken House. "
3 " I kiss him as if a kiss could break a binding, and he kisses me as if it could mend a broken heart. "
4 " I'm not just Violet Sterling, Caretaker of a failing House. I am the sum of everywhere and everything I've been. And I am still, in my deepest parts, Vi of the Fens, who never goes home empty-handed. "
5 " My father, and all of my forefathers back to William the Deedwinner, sat on the throne of this country because they wanted something that didn't belong to them. The world is full of men who want things, and never question their right to go after them. "