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“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

“She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“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

“Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Death is always sudden," Glerk said. His eyes had begun to itch. "Even when it isn't.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Kisses were not supposed to be like this. Kisses were to be witnessed by stars, not held in the presence of stale death. But as the bones rose around them, Laila saw fractals of white. They looked like pale constellations, and she thought that, perhaps, for a kiss like this, even hell would put forth stars.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Some of us are broken and there’s nothing you can do to fix it.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“We had been so beautiful together, reflecting one another like a family of mirrors.”
― Lana Popović, Wicked Like a Wildfire

“Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“[She] had sounded like the rain. Sometimes storms, sometimes light patters, sometimes the sweet, lashing gales after a long drought. Sometimes even the kind that came with rainbows. The kind you wanted to feel on your face while you held the rest of your body underwater in the summer sea.

Rain could be so warm. No one ever really talked about that.”
― Lana Popović, Wicked Like a Wildfire

“People want to believe in mermaids.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“They were staring away from each other, Lina's eyes near silver in the dimming light, as if her irises were limned with mercury, Niko's dark and gleaming like a doe's, blackened with liner. There was something glinting right beneath the surface there, a goldfish flicker in a pond, but I lost it just as quickly.”
― Lana Popović, Wicked Like a Wildfire

“Each bloomed into a little galaxy that I could cup inside my palm, the sticky stars of its pollen caught between my fingers.”
― Lana Popović, Wicked Like a Wildfire

“Being sorry doesn't always fix everything, and I know that I- that sometimes I use it like a patch.”
― Lana Popović, Wicked Like a Wildfire

“All hail the misogyny, as if women can't be good at stealing and sacrilege-”
― Lana Popović, Wicked Like a Wildfire

“It was because she was listening so closely that she knew the exact moment when Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, the bastard of the Barrel and deadliest boy in Ketterdam, fainted.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“You can’t spend his money if you’re dead.”
“I’ll acquire expensive habits in the afterlife.”
“There’s a difference between confidence and arrogance.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It was a whimsical thing fit for changeling children, wrought with mermaids trapped in ivy, open seashells with tiny apples growing in them instead of salty flesh.”
― Lana Popović, Wicked Like a Wildfire

“The queen may pretend affection for her daughter, but it’s clear she does not truly understand her.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Theft of Sunlight

“And, like home, there are all different types of bodies here, tall and short, thick and thin.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Theft of Sunlight

“I turn to find myself facing a faerie, tall and elegant, with eyes so dark they appear fathomless. I blink. The faerie remains.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Theft of Sunlight

“It was always wise to be polite to books, whether or not they could hear you.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“My magic is gone, Evadne," he said, mournful.
Evadne drew back so she could look at him, "Then we shall have to make our own.”
― Rebecca Ross, Sisters of Sword and Song

“The woman closed her eyes. Tamsin kept her gaze steady on the woman’s face. The palm of her hand grew warm. The woman’s love ran up Tamsin’s arm and into her bloodstream. The room began to brighten—the greens of her freshly gathered herbs were bright and waxy; their sharp scents wafted through the afternoon air, tickling the inside of her nose. Tamsin’s spirits rose as she reveled in the warmth spreading through her body, into her bones.”
― Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

“Tamsin tucked the love into the left-hand corner of her rib cage, trying to corral it as best she could—although, of course, love could never truly be controlled. It was like trying to trap flies in a birdcage.”
― Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

“With all the strength remaining in her body, the little mermaid plunged the knife straight through the prince's back and into his heart.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“And beyond, our mother lay like a deathbed princess under fluorescent lights.”
― Lana Popović, Wicked Like a Wildfire