What a strange world this was, that I could come here to lose everything about myself, and instead lose everything but me. It was possible that Iâ€™d thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over Godâ€™s fence. It would be, after all, a divinely ironic punishment to watch me learn to care and then destroy the things I cared about.

Maggie Stiefvater

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