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  • #1
    Kiersten White
    “love is the highest expression of faith—in ourselves, in others, in the world. I can expand my faith to allow myself happiness in this life, and trust in God’s love and mercy after this life.”
    Kiersten White, Bright We Burn

  • #2
    R.F. Kuang
    “The point of revenge wasn’t to heal. The point was that the exhilaration, however temporary, drowned out the hurt.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

  • #3
    Neal Shusterman
    “My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #4
    Kiersten White
    “The world will destroy her in the end. Too much spark leads to explosions. But your sister will destroy as much as she can before she goes out. She will go down in flames and blood.”
    Kiersten White, Now I Rise

  • #5
    Alexander Pope
    “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
    The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
    Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
    Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
    Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

  • #6
    Olivie Blake
    “A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”
    Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

  • #9
    R.F. Kuang
    “Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #11
    Neal Shusterman
    “Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #12
    R.F. Kuang
    “Power dictates acceptability,”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

  • #14
    J.Y.  Yang
    “People make mistakes. They can't be mistakes.”
    J.Y. Yang, The Black Tides of Heaven

  • #15
    R.F. Kuang
    “Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn't fit your present understanding of the world.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

  • #15
    Madeline Miller
    “I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #16
    Neal Shusterman
    “Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #16
    Marie Lu
    “Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
    Marie Lu, The Young Elites

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Kiersten White
    “On our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #20
    Adam Silvera
    “...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
    Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

  • #20
    Neal Shusterman
    “Have we ever had an enemy worse than ourselves?”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #22
    R.F. Kuang
    “War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: war

  • #22
    Madeline Miller
    “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #23
    R.F. Kuang
    “Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: war

  • #24
    Chloe Gong
    “This is why my betrayal was so terrible. Because you believed me incapable of hurting you, and yet I did.”
    Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

  • #25
    R.F. Kuang
    “Take what you want. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

  • #25
    Chloe Gong
    “These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.”
    Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

  • #26
    R.F. Kuang
    “Hate was its own kind of fire and if you had nothing else, it kept you warm.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Burning God
    tags: hate

  • #27
    R.F. Kuang
    “If she let it linger, then she started to drown, and the only way to make those feelings stop was to burn instead.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

  • #27
    Neal Shusterman
    “Death must exist for life to have meaning.”
    Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

  • #28
    Neal Shusterman
    “The end doesn't always justify the means. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.”
    Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

  • #29
    Olivie Blake
    “The problem with knowledge, is its inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know”
    Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

  • #30
    Neal Shusterman
    “Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe



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