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“He was quiet for a few seconds, and Sophie thought he was going to ignore her. But then he leaned closer-close enough that she could feel his breath on her cheek. " I crack a lot of jokes ,Sophie , but ....that's just because it's easier, you know? It's how I deal. But that doesn't mean I don't care. I do, a lot.”
― Shannon Messenger, Exile

“There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’re given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“Yes, she was an orphan, a sister, a pirate, a girl, and also a boy. But more importantly, she was a person who sought power to protect those she loved. Including herself. Or himself. Both were equally true to her. Neither told the whole story.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“Magic was at its core, she said, a kind of madness. It was a willingness to look at the corporeal world and to see it only as the story up to that point. That everything that followed could be changed. Rocks fell because the belief that they would fall was so strong. But that belief wasn’t binding. It didn’t have to be binding anyway. For a price.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“She promised herself that when she breathed free once more, she would see these men ruined.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’ve been given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“None of us live without consequence. Our personal preferences are not truly personal. One person’s needs will deny another’s. Our privileges can harm ourselves and others.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“Alone is an island. It’s an uncrossable sea, being too far from another soul, whereas lonely is being too close, in the same house yet separated by walls because we choose to be, and when I fall asleep, the pain of loneliness follows me as I dream of more walls.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“Celia had loved the sea. Loved the whitecaps that foamed like milk, the waltz of sunlight atop the peaks. Kasey did not. The sea was a trillion strands of hair, infinitely tangled on the surface and infinitely dense beneath. It distorted time: Minutes passed like hours and hours passed like minutes out there. It distorted space, made the horizon seem within reach.

And it was the perfect place for hiding secrets.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“And I think we have even less choice over the ones we’re meant to find.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“People wanted the quickest, easiest solutions. To solve their most immediate problems, they could steal from any future other than their own.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“Others might believe there’s power in a single step,” murmured Actinium, the cadence of his breath brushing Kasey’s ear. Her eyes widened. His warmth was real. So was the brace of his arm. The press of his chest. “But most choices are made before you reach the edge.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“No one enters this world by choice. If we're lucky, we can choose how we leave.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“Everyone lived at the expense of someone else.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“Would people ever willingly give up their freedom for the good of others?”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“I love you.
And even if you failed me,
I'd never replace you”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“Most choices are made before you reach the edge.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“Home could be here, for all I care, if she were with me.”
― Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

“If I told you my name, would you bow?” His voice was soft. A melancholy caress. He lifted his chin when understanding dawned on her face. “Or would you flee?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Promise me,” Yasmine said softly, “that if you die, you will die fighting to return to me.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

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

“They'll tell stories about us, he had said.
There once was a boy with a future.
Until all he had left was his past.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“He didn't live. He existed. And no one understood the difference between the two until they ceased to live.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“There once was a boy with a future.
Until all he had left was his past.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You do it for them. For them to love you.” She opened her mouth to protest, but he cut her off. “We’re so quick to dismiss the sentiment as weak, but hearts beat for love, don’t they? A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“I have always wished for someone to take matters into her own hands...to prove to our caliph that a body is only a body and that a soul determines one's actions.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Before that beautiful heart that harmed none and loved too much-stopped.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame