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“Oh, is this how it goes? I'm murdered and everyone has orders to kill me on sight? Just to rub it in?”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Truth is never kind.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Don’t be a martyr. We have no use for yet another saint.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He was a mess of scars like the sky was a mess of stars.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You are your strength.”
― Hafsah Faizal

“She was the viper. She would be the nightmare everyone thought she was.”
― Swati Teerdhala

“When we revise the horror and sanitize the grotesque, we risk erasing the paths that led us here.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Nothing was invincible but change.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“He was holding the Bible. Instinctively, she leaned away.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried over fiction instead of the truth. The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to make the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“History is nothing. It can be recycled or thrown away completely. It isn’t this sacred treasure chest I mistook it to be. We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“But maybe people should be kind without reason.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“...and we would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“Every problem has a solution. But after every solution, there's a new problem to tackle, some new challenge to take on.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“In spite of everything I'd seen and all I knew about what was wrong with the NeuroLink-I'm sad without it. Hideo had created something that changed all of our lives, often for the better. It was a creation that had probably saved my life. And yet, here I am. Maybe I should feel like a hero. But I don't. It's always easier to destroy than create.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“I refuse to believe that he’s nothing more than a monster. I can’t watch him sink like this. I keep going because I need to find that boy again, the beating heart buried underneath his lie. I have to stop him in order to save him. He was once the hand that pulled me up. Now I have to be his.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“I know that existing as a human on this Earth should be enough to deserve respect and justice. But it isn't. Instead, we focus on those who we deem worthy, for whom we allow ourselves to feel the weight of their loss. We mention potential not reached or promise of greatness gone unfulfilled, while others are erased from existence all together.
But we are more than the good ones.
We are the bad ones.
We are the okay ones.
We are the amazing ones.
We are the nothing-to-write-home-about-ones.
We are the beautiful ones.
We are just...ones.”
― Maika Moulite, One of the Good Ones

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness.
Her raven boys.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves