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#1

“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: alice-in-wonderland, beautiful

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#2

“I am the thing in the dark.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

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#3

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: cardan, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince

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#4

“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

tags: cardan-greenbriar, love, romance

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#5

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: jude

1537 likes

#6

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

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#7

“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”
― Sappho

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#8

“you came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

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#9

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20157 likes

#10

“Love makes fools of us all, darling.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

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#11

“Such a love was not something of just the heart and mind. It wasn't something to be felt and eventually forgotten, to be touched without it in return touching you. No . . . this love was something else. Something irrevocable. It was something of the soul.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

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#12

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self

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#13

“The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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#14

“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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#15

“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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#16

“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

tags: civility, evil

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#17

“It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

tags: love, magic, soulmates

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#18

“Let that be a lesson to you: If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It will always cost you, in the end.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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#19

“Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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#20

“How fitting, that the most terrifying time in my life should require me to do what I do best: escape into a book.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

tags: books, escape, reading

104 likes

#21

“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

tags: blue-sargent, the-raven-boys

837 likes

#22

“The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#23

“Is that all?" she whispered.
Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: sad

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#24

“I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#25

“I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: gansey, raven, raven-boys, ronan

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#26

“I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: blue, gansey

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#27

“If it had a social security number, Ronan had fought with it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: humor, ronan-lynch, the-raven-boys

152 likes

#28

“People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: different, thoughtful

138 likes

#29

“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

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#30

“While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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