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“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“What a thing to say!'
Gabriel, interrupted midrant, looked as shocked as if one of the tapestries had suddenly started talking. 'Pardon me?'
'You heard me. Telling someone you wouldn't be sorry if they died! It's inexcusable!' She took hold of Will by the sleeve. "Come along, Will. This - this person - obviously isn't worth wasting your time on.'
Will looked hugely entertained. 'So true.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I couldn't let go. I couldn't lose her. It was like I was in love with her, even though I didn't know her. Kind of like love before first sight.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Losing her was the worst thing I could imagine. Like I was falling, but this time I would definitely hit the ground”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
― Voltaire

“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“He was probably the hottest guy I'd ever seen in real life, and he was a total douche. Go figure.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Beginnings: Obsidian & Onyx

“I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have they have? Their beauty is only passing. It's just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“It worries me. It really does. Maybe I should have known how it was going to end for us. Maybe the end was written right from the beginning.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“What cues us that something is not innocent? Instinct always trumps reason.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Nothing wakes me up like a laugh, really, even just one big laugh, as long as it's sincere. It's better than caffeine.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Questions are good. They're better than answers. If you want to know more about life, how we work, how we progress, it's questions that are important. That's what pushes and stretches our intellect.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world's answer.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Experience trumps age, he said. We have to find ways to experience because that's how we learn, that's how we know.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“To really know ourselves, we have to question ourselves.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“It does seem like there's more opportunity to reflect on sadness and feelings of inadequacy, and also a pressure to be happy all the time. Which is impossible.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“At night, the moon silvered smaller and smaller. I stared until I could see it even when I closed my eyes, the yellow curve bright against the dark of my eyelids. I hoped that it might keep the visions of the boy at bay.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe / The Song of Achilles

“His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“His fingers touched the strings and all my thoughts were displaced. The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons. It was like no music I had ever heard before. It had warmth as a fire does, a texture and weight like polished ivory. It buoyed and soothed at once.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“His voice too, soft and deep, sophisticated, a layer of velvet hiding secrets.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“Do one thing, however small, and it will affect something else on the other side of the world.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“You’re dangerous,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you make me believe in the impossible”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“Daemon… He loves you, too?”
I blinked, brought back to the present. “Yes. I think so.”
“He told you?”
Not in so many words. “He hasn’t said it, said it. But I think he does.”
“He should tell you. Every day.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Opal

“I want to kiss her more than I want air.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying