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“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“I never denied being a fool,” I said, lying back down on my bed. “That’s the difference between us.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Know that I loved you, she said to the Darkling. Know that it was not enough.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Am I not merciful?”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Conner answered, "Mrs. Turbeldy warned me that you have a history of running away. Where did you go?"
To the church of course. To confess my sins.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“I've got to go."
"Go where?"
"To go. I'd have just taken care of it myself, but it looks like you want to come along."
Mott cursed. "Wait for morning."
"Wish I could. I've been cursed with my mother's pea-size bladder.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“Kneel, please," Connor said. "I wish to study you better."
Come as close to me as you'd like," I answered. "Study me here, on my feet."
"You won't kneel?"
"Would a prince?"
Conner raised his voice. "You're not a prince until I say so."
"I don't need you to say so, sir. As you see me standing here, I am the prince of Carthya.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“No, my lady. If I cannot look at you as an equal, i will not look at you at all”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Once, there was a girl who found a sword in the woods. Once, there was a girl who made a bargain with the Folk. Once, there was a girl who’d been a knight in the service of a monster. Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself. Once, there was a girl… Hazel”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Todos esos monstruos. Todas esas formas horribles de matar gente. Tantas criaturas espeluznantes que andan sueltas por ahí... -Se estremeció-. Todos nacemos y crecemos rodeados de monstruos. forman parte de nuestro mundo, así que al final nos hacemos a la idea de que están ahí, y de que podremos evitarlos con un poco de suerte. Pero en tu libro salen muchos mas. Es como volver a descubrir que vives en un mundo brutal cuando ya creías que lo habías asumido.”
― Laura Gallego García, El bestiario de Axlin

“Al final, tu destino acude siempre a buscarte, no importa dónde te escondas.”
― Laura Gallego García, El bestiario de Axlin

“-No tengas miedo -susurro entonces Xein en la oscuridad-. Aquí estas a salvo, te lo prometo.”
― Laura Gallego García, El bestiario de Axlin

“I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me.”
― Dylan Thomas

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“But perhaps all monsters were heroes in their own eyes.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“I never meant to hurt anyone.

Perhaps monsters never meant to hurt others, either. Perhaps monsters didn't even know they were monsters.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“But, in this world, life is a masquerade. Everyone wears masks.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Choices were for those with privilege and power. When you had none, all you could do was survive.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir