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  • #1
    Gail Honeyman
    “In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
    Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  • #2
    Gail Honeyman
    “I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.”
    Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  • #3
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #4
    “Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.”
    Daniel Abraham, A Betrayal in Winter

  • #5
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    Ignorance
    Protects itself.
    Ignorance
    Promotes suspicion.
    Suspicion
    Engenders fear.
    Fear quails,
    Irrational and blind,
    Or fear looms,
    Defiant and closed.
    Blind, closed,
    Suspicious, afraid,
    Ignorance
    Protects itself,
    And protected,
    Ignorance grows.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #6
    Emily Henry
    “When I was a kid, I used to have these panic attacks thinking about how I could never be anyone else. I couldn’t be my mom or my dad, and for my whole life, I’d have to walk around inside a body that kept me from ever truly knowing anyone else.”
    Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

  • #7
    Colleen Hoover
    “I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
    Colleen Hoover, Verity

  • #8
    Colleen Hoover
    “No one is likable from the inside out.”
    Colleen Hoover, Verity

  • #9
    Colleen Hoover
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    Colleen Hoover, Verity

  • #10
    Brit Bennett
    “People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
    Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

  • #11
    Christelle Dabos
    “I think I’m starting to get used to you”
    Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise

  • #12
    Christelle Dabos
    “Reading had always been a passion, but since when were passions the only foundations of a life?”
    Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise

  • #13
    Christelle Dabos
    “one never loves someone more than when one knows the least about them.”
    Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise

  • #14
    Nisi Shawl
    “we continually create the world we occupy”
    Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

  • #15
    Nisi Shawl
    “How authentically human. How dangerous.”
    Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

  • #16
    Nisi Shawl
    “There was a quality to being alone in the woods that felt safe and dangerous at the same time.”
    Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

  • #17
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “That was the problem with love. It was hard to unlearn, no matter how harsh the lesson.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “You rescue me. I rescue you. That’s how
    this works. To pay your debts, you had to know who you owed. You had to decide who you were willing to go to war for and who you trusted to jump into the fray for you. That was all there was in this world. No heroes or villains, just the people you’d brave the waves for, and the ones you’d let drown.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

  • #20
    Adrienne Young
    “The only safety that existed was in being completely alone.”
    Adrienne Young, Fable

  • #21
    Adrienne Young
    “Like a weary bird flying out over the most desolate sea, I finally had a place to land.”
    Adrienne Young, Fable

  • #22
    Olivie Blake
    “When you no longer exist, you will have left nothing behind.”
    Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

  • #23
    Olivie Blake
    “To know what people really are and not destroy them is savagely remarkable. She has exceptional restraint.”
    Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

  • #24
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #25
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #26
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #27
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #28
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #29
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “There's no game without the NPCs. There's just some bullshit hero, wandering around with no one to talk to and nothing to do.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #30
    Jo Walton
    “I don't think you realize how different it is for me than for you. You can make your way by your own wits and claws, while I must always be dependent on some male to protect me. Wits I may have, but claws I am without, and while hands are useful for writing and fine work they are no use in a battle.”
    Jo Walton, Tooth and Claw



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