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“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“It's not exciting if nothing can go wrong.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Some truths are safest buried. Some castles best kept in the sky. There's promise in tales that are yet to be spoken.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still. When his tutors had thrown up their hands in frustration, it was the library that had taught Nikolai military history, strategy, chemistry, astronomy. Each spine had been an open door away whispering, Come in, come in. Here is the land you’ve never seen before. Here is a place to hide when you’re frightened, to play when you’re bored, to rest when the world seems unkind.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Everyone mourns the first blossom.
Who will grieve the rest who fall?”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

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

“Fear is a phoenix. Words Liliyana had spoken to her years ago and that Zoya had repeated to others many times. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“You’re late,” said Zoya. “I’m the king,” said Nikolai. “That means you’re early.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Tragedies happen once, memories
relive them eternally.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“If we don't dream, who will?”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Hand me that brandy,” said Zoya. “I can’t tolerate this degree of stupidity on a clear head.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Fears are like weeds. They grow wild if left unattended.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“That squash is as wide as I am tall, " Nikolai said beneath his breath as he smiled and waved.
"And twice as handsome. "
"Half as handsome," he protested.
"Ah, " said Zoya, "but the squash doesn't talk.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“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

“My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Fire-breathing bitch-queen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“...her dearest friends are characters in books.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“We can listen to friends and strangers until the sun goes down, but we can never know someone's full story without going through the world in their bodies.”
― Adam Silvera, Infinity Reaper

“Emifal firdaant. May death claim me first.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“You are broken. But it is broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“You are lucky enough to love someone who loves you back. He is alive and breathing and in the same vicinity as you. By the skies, do something about it. For however long you have. For whatever time you get. Because if you don’t, I swear that you’ll regret it for all your years”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“It is not all that I wanted. But it is not nothing either.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“No one is ever the villain of their own story.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked.
"In case one of them is stolen," Marked said, as it were entirely normal.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche