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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
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    Richelle Mead
    “You've asked me out tons of times."
    "Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, rose-hathaway
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    Richelle Mead
    “I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony”
    ― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
    tags: adrian-ivashkov
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    Richelle Mead
    “From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite.
    "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them.
    "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, christian, humor
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    Richelle Mead
    “Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)”
    ― Richelle Mead, Bloodlines
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, humor
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    Richelle Mead
    “My God, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them?"

    That uncomfortable feeling was spreading over me again. "What about them?"

    "The color," he breathed. "When you stand in the light. They're amazing... like molten gold. I could paint those..." He reached toward me but then pulled back. "They're beautiful. You're beautiful.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Bloodlines
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, beautiful, eyes, paint, sunlight, sydney-sage
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    Kate Avery Ellison
    “What about you? What do you do?” I needed to ask questions, draw him out. I needed to find out all the information I could. My voice sounded strong and smooth, but my hands were shaking. I put them in my lap so he couldn’t see.
    “I prey on innocent villagers and terrify their children,” he said with a nasty smile. “And sometimes when I’m feeling really evil, I read books or paint.”
    ― Kate Avery Ellison, The Curse Girl
    tags: beauty, curious, funny, kate-avery-ellison, sarcasm, the-curse-girl, will
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    Kate Avery Ellison
    “He glanced up once, eyes bored. “Please stop talking. I’m trying to eat.”
    ― Kate Avery Ellison, The Curse Girl
    tags: eat, funny, kate-avery-ellison, the-curse-girl, will, will-to-beauty
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    Veronica Roth
    “I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: humorous
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    Richelle Mead
    “You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite
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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage
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    Veronica Roth
    “Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'

    'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris
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    Veronica Roth
    “Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Richelle Mead
    “I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
    tags: dimitri, humor, paranormal-romance, rose, urban-fantasy, vampire, young-adult-novels
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    Richelle Mead
    “There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite
    tags: academy, frostbite, mead, richelle, vampire
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    Richelle Mead
    “By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.
    Hey, no one said high school was easy.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite
    tags: academy, frostbite, hathaway, mead, richelle, rose, vampire
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    Veronica Roth
    “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Veronica Roth
    “We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Veronica Roth
    “You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes.
    "Not claustrophobic people, Tris.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Veronica Roth
    “It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: pain
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    Veronica Roth
    “I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Lauren Oliver
    “You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: contrast, happiness, unhappiness
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    Lauren Oliver
    “A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
    ― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall
    tags: confidences, friends, secrets
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    Lauren Oliver
    “And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: love
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    Lauren Oliver
    “Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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