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“Inside the carriage, Cardan slumps. I stare at him, at the blood drying in tide lines over his body and crusting in his curls like tiny garnets. I force myself to look out the window instead.

'How long have I-' he hesitates.

'Not even three days,' I tell him. 'Barely any time at all.' I do not mention how long it has seemed.

Nor do I say how he might have been trapped as a serpent for all time, bridled and bound. Or dead.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Cassian slung an arm around Rhys's shoulders. 'Let's go get bloodied up.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“And then I yet again find myself standing before the very thing that has relentlessly pummeled me, staring through a bloodied brow realizing that my most heroic efforts have utterly failed to bring this thing to an ‘end.â€� And at those most hopeless of moments where I stand before a monster I cannot slay, it would behoove me to finally accept the reality that the ‘beginning of the endâ€� is only possible when I ‘beginâ€� to surrender that thing to God and ‘endâ€� my feeble attempts to slay it on my own.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough