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  • #1
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #2
    “the most beautiful thing in this world isn’t made up of particles. it’s the strength of a person who has seen the collapse of their world, everything they held dear crashing down in a million pieces. yet every morning, they wake up and build their life, all over again. mourning their loss in a tranquil silence. i haven’t yet seen anything more astonishingly beautiful.”
    Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #5
    Nikita Gill
    “Persephone, grant me the foresight to know when I must let go my old life to start anew.

    Artemis, grant me the strength of your spine when you helped deliver Apollo, your own twin.

    Athena, grant me the solidarity in your sinews for which you were born in all of your armour.

    Aphrodite, grant me the kind of heart that always follows my passions true.

    Andromeda grant me the wish to never fall out of love with the night sky or the glisten of it’s stars.

    And Hera, grant me your fury, so I can remind my enemies I am not the weakness they perceive, I am the oncoming storm, I am war.”
    Nikita Gill

  • #6
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #7
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
    Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #8
    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #9
    Sarah J. Maas
    “We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #10
    Sarah J. Maas
    “He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #11
    Sarah J. Maas
    “She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

  • #12
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

  • #13
    Sarah J. Maas
    “When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #14
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #15
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

  • #16
    Sarah J. Maas
    “There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #17
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
    I was a survivor, and I was strong.
    I would not be weak, or helpless again
    I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #18
    Sarah J. Maas
    “And then I am going to rattle the stars.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

  • #19
    Sarah J. Maas
    “If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #20
    Sarah J. Maas
    “There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #21
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Why are you crying?"
    "Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

  • #22
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Because I am lost," she whispered onto the earth. "And I do not know the way.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

  • #24
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #25
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #27
    John Green
    “Your now is not your forever.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #28
    John Green
    “You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #29
    John Green
    “I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #30
    John Green
    “No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide the frame.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #31
    John Green
    “One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down



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