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  • #1
    Rick Riordan
    “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #2
    Rick Riordan
    “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #3
    Marissa Meyer
    “Her satellite made one full orbit around Planet Earth every sixteen hours. It was a prison that came with an endlessly breathtaking view— vast blue oceans and swirling clouds and sunrises that set half the world on fire.”
    Marissa Meyer, Cress

  • #4
    Marissa Meyer
    “Love is a conquest! Love is war!”
    Marissa Meyer, Fairest

  • #5
    Elizabeth I
    “Men fight wars. Women win them.”
    Queen Elizabeth I of England

  • #6
    Aristotle
    “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
    Aristotle
    tags: work

  • #7
    Aristotle
    “The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
    Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

  • #8
    Thomas   Moore
    “And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
    Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.”
    Thomas Moore

  • #9
    William Ellery Channing
    “Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.”
    William Ellery Channing

  • #10
    William Ellery Channing
    “It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.”
    William Ellery Channing

  • #11
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Everything’s a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #12
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
    “Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #13
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #14
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #15
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “You don't have to kiss me. You don't even have to like me, Heiress, but please don't make me do this alone.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #16
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

  • #17
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “I came to see you,” Jameson told me. “Every day. The least you could have done was wake up while I was here, tragically backlit, unspeakably handsome, and waiting.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

  • #18
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Picture yourself standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The wind is whipping your hair. The sun is setting. You long, body and soul, for one thing. One person. You hear footsteps behind you. You turn. Who's there?

    I remembered a voice. Jameson Winchester Hawthorne.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

  • #19
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #20
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “You think I didn’t fight the same fight? I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I’d be fine. Well, joke’s on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

  • #21
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “I wasn't delusional. I wasn't dreaming.
    I was an heiress.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #22
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Forty-six point two billion dollars, I thought, my heart attacking my rib cage and my mouth sandpaper-dry. Tobias Hawthorne was worth forty-six point two billion dollars, and he left his grandsons a million dollars, combined. A hundred thousand total to his daughters. Another half million to his servants, an annuity for Nan...
    The math in this equation did not add up. It couldn't add up.
    One by one, the other occupants of the room of the room turned to stare at me.
    'The remainder of my estate,' Mr. Ortega read, 'including all properties, monetary assets, and worldly possessions not otherwise specified, I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #23
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

  • #24
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Jameson was close to me now. Too close. Every one of the Hawthorne boys was magnetic. Larger than life. They had an effect on people—and Jameson was very good at using that to get what he wanted. He wants something from me now.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

  • #25
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Jameson smiled. It was his slow, dangerous, heady smile, designed to elicit a reaction. I didn’t give him one.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

  • #26
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
    She is one of us. We protect her.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

  • #27
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Jameson Winchester Hawthorne is hungry. He's been looking for something. He's been looking for it since the day he was born.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

  • #28
    Stephanie Garber
    “She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
    Stephanie Garber, Caraval

  • #29
    Stephanie Garber
    “Every good story needs a villain.
    But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
    Stephanie Garber, Legendary

  • #30
    Stephanie Garber
    “So,’ she said cautiously, 'is all this your way of telling me you’re the villain?’
    His chuckle was dark. 'I’m definitely not the hero.’
    'I already knew that,’ Tella said. 'It’s my story, so clearly I’m the hero.”
    Stephanie Garber, Legendary



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