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“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!'

'No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“And perhaps at the other end of the world there is a place where the screaming can’t be heard, and I may find it in my heart to grant God absolution!”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“We are all someone's monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

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

“What do you want then?"
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Sometimes if you look a word up in the dictionary, you’ll see some definitions marked as obsolete. Natasha often wonders about this, how language can be slippery. A word can start off meaning one thing and end up meaning another.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children pushed the wicked witch into her own oven. Tiffany had worried about that after all that trouble with Mrs. Snapperly. Stories like this stopped people thinking properly, she was sure. She’d read that one and thought, Excuse me? No one has an oven big enough to get a whole person in, and what made the children think they could just walk around eating people’s houses in any case? And why does some boy too stupid to know a cow is worth a lot more than five beans have the right to murder a giant and steal all his gold? Not to mention commit an act of ecological vandalism? And some girl who can’t tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother must either have been as dense as teak or come from an extremely ugly family. The stories weren’t real.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“I bet Mrs Snapperly had no teeth and talked to herself, right?” said Miss Tick.
“Yes. And she had a cat. And a squint,” said Tiffany. And then it all came out in a rush: “And so after he vanished, they went to her cottage and they looked in the oven and they dug up her garden and they threw stones at her old cat until it died and they turned her out of her cottage and piled u pall her old books in the middle of the room and set fire to them and burned the place to the ground and everyone said she was an old witch.”
“They burned the books,” said Miss Tick in a flat voice.
“Because they said they had old writing in them,” said Tiffany. “And pictures of stars.”
“And when you went to look, did they?” said Miss Tick.
Tiffany suddenly felt cold. “How did you know?” she said.
“I’m good at listening. Well, did they?”
Tiffany sighed. “Yes, I went to the cottage next day, and some of the pages, you know, had kind of floated up in the heat? And I found a part of one, and it had all old lettering and gold and blue edging. And I buried her cat.”
“You buried the cat?”
“Yes! Someone had to!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“I am grateful you're alive", he said. "I am grateful that you're beside me. I am grateful that you're eating."
She rested her head on his shoulder.
"You're better that waffles, Matthias Helvar."
A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips.
"Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Do not take juju lightly, unless you are looking for unexpected death.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Warrior

“Stay out of trouble. Be positive forces to the world.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Warrior

“When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale