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“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I wish you could see yourself the way I see you"
- Adam”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I’m going to kill you,” he gritted out, little more than a growl. “If you say another word about the woman I love, if you look at her, if you even think about her - I’m going to fucking kill you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“if academia ever makes you feel like you’re not good or smart enough . . . it’s not you, it’s academia.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Annie used to have a funny theory: we all have a Year Zero around which the calendars of our lives pivot. At some point you meet someone, and they become so important, so metamorphic, that ten, twenty, sixty-five years down the line you look back and realize that you could split your existence in two. Before they showed (BCE), and your Common Era. Your very own Gregorian calendar.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“I can give you nice. I can give you better than nice. I can give you everything.” He smiles at me, full of hope. “You don’t even have to admit to yourself that you love me, Bee. God knows I love you enough for the both of us. But I need you to stay. I need you to stick around. Not in Houston, if you don’t want to. I’ll follow you, if you ask me to.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“If there is one thing men hate more than a smart woman, it’s a smart woman who makes her own choices when it comes to her own sex life.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Thank you, Oh Penised Overlords, for the recognition I deserve”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Science is reliable in its variability. Science does whatever the fuck it wants. God, I love science.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“FUN FACT ABOUT me: I am a fairly mellow person, but I happen to have a very violent fantasy life. Maybe it’s an overactive amygdala. Maybe it’s too much estrogen. Maybe it’s the lack of parental role models in my formative years. I honestly don’t know what the cause is, but the fact remains: I sometimes daydream about murdering people. By “sometimes,” I mean often. And by “people,” I mean Levi Ward. I have my first vivid reverie on my third day at NASA, when I imagine offing him with poison.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“I call them the Quasimotoes.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Maybe the gift of being human is that we do not give up- even when all hope is lost.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“This goes to show that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always the ones who do.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“It's good to doubt Saints, Vladim. And men.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“I'm trying to do the responsible thing. I think it's giving me indigestion.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I once thought home was simply a place. Four walls to hold you at night while you slept. But I was wrong. It’s people. It’s being with the ones that you love, and maybe even the ones that you hate.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“I tried to turn myself into stone. To not feel anything. But now I realize it is better to live, to feel and have a clean break than be half-dead and cold, cracked from resentment.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“Welcome home, my old menace.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“The days may be dark,” Sidra said. “But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel joy.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“I wanted, more than anything, to belong somewhere.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“It feels strange,” she whispered. “To not know which side I belong to.”
“You belong to both,” he replied. “You are the east as you are the west. You are mine as I am yours.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“Ah, but you were not a pawn. All along, you have been the queen.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“I was alive in a way I never had been before, in a world that no longer felt stale but instead crackled with breathless promise.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“This wasn't like me. So many years of being cautious, and in a matter of minutes I'd started slipping up.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“It may be cruel, but it is also fair”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki

“It’s good to feel fear. If you feel fear it means there’s something to be feared, so be vigilant. Fear doesn’t have to be overcome. Just don’t yield to it. And you can learn from it.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“For I must tell you, gentle reader, that Geralt the Witcher was always a modest, prudent and composed man, with a soul as simple and uncomplicated as the shaft of a halberd.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki