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I cherish who you've managed to be, despite the world telling you over and over that you're wrong.

— Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1) (Page 309)

This world can make monsters out of anyone

— Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1) (Page 256)

How do you take the fight out of half the population and render them willing slaves? You tell them they're meant to do nothing but serve from the minute they're born. You tell them they're weak. You tell them they're prey. You tell them over and over until it's the only truth they're capable of living.

— Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1) (Page 210)

I hate the way I've contorted myself into what people think a girl should be, ready to please, ready to serve. Yet I love the power its given me, a power that lies in being underestimated, in wearing assumptions as a disguise.

— Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1) (Page 57)

I have no faith in love. Love cannot save me. I choose vengeance.

— Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1) (Page 17)

She was happy. She didn't know how to be happy, but she was learning. It was like a kind of poison she had to immunise herself against bit by bit, to keep it from being rejected out of hand.

— Frontier by Grace Curtis