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  • #1
    Marie Lu
    “Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”
    Marie Lu, Warcross

  • #2
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #3
    Victoria Schwab
    “We don't choose what we are, but we choose what we do.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

  • #4
    Tommy Wallach
    “You didn’t win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those—what were they called again?—Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later.”
    Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

  • #5
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

  • #6
    Holly Black
    “Villains were wonderful. They got to be cruel and selfish, to preen in front of mirrors and poison apples, and trap girls on mountains of glass. They indulged all their worst impulses, revenged themselves for the least offense, and took every last thing they wanted. And sure, they wound up in barrels studded with nails, or dancing in iron shoes heated by fire, not just dead, but disgraced and screaming. But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land.”
    Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

  • #7
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #8
    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
    Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

  • #9
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #10
    Holly Black
    “Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #11
    Victoria Schwab
    “I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

  • #13
    Tommy Wallach
    “The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
    Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

  • #13
    Victoria Schwab
    “She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

  • #14
    Victoria Schwab
    “Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
    Victoria Schwab, Vicious

  • #15
    Tommy Wallach
    “the fundamental rule of life: Things were never so bad that they couldn’t get worse.”
    Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

  • #16
    Holly Black
    “Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.”
    Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

  • #17
    Tommy Wallach
    “Why had he assumed time was some sort of infinite resource? Now the hourglass had busted open, and what he’d always assumed was just a bunch of sand turned out to be a million tiny diamonds.”
    Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

  • #18
    Tommy Wallach
    “Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident”
    Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #20
    Holly Black
    “I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #22
    Victoria Schwab
    “Whatever I am, let it be enough”
    V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

  • #23
    Victoria Schwab
    “Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #25
    Karen M. McManus
    “All of Fright Farm's success is based on how much people love to be scared in a controlled environment. There's something deeply satisfying about confronting a monster and escaping unscathed. Real monsters aren't anything like that. They don't let go”
    Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

  • #26
    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “I'm not myself," she offered, guiltily. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish.

    He smiled. "You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.”
    Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

  • #27
    Holly Black
    “There is no banquet too abundant for a starving man.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #28
    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.”
    Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

  • #29
    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “Still, the longer I was around her, the more I could see the colors of her mind and the recesses of her heart. There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too. There was strength, and there was also just the determination to look strong. She guarded herself like a secret.”
    Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

  • #30
    Kiera Cass
    “Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
    Kiera Cass, The One



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