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“There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster they became.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“He came for the girl... And got the monster instead.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“But gods don’t have to make sense,”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“I'd been an odd child, then an odd teenager. Then I'd become, maybe as a result, maybe unavoidably, an odd adult.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

“The devil has a pretty face, and humanity is going to hell for worshipping it.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Words and phrases you think are carved into your bones can disappear in no time.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“If there is anyone I would damn my soul for,” Gáspár says, “it would be you.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn't forbidden, and they intervene, then it's not the activity that's attracting the attention, it is you yourself.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“He puts his claw against the divider. “Fist my bump.”

“Fist-bump. It’s just ‘fist-bump.’”

“Understand.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“You didn’t fail,” I said. “They wouldn’t let you succeed. It’s different.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

“I feel sometimes it is so difficult to be conscious.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“ Wait and see. The world is not always cruel.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone