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“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“But I will not run. I wouldn't be standing here if I'd quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome. I will not die today.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.”
― Ally Carter, United We Spy

“She had her secrets but she wasn't dangerous- She was just lost.”
― Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen

“It isn't the dark you should be afraid of, the girl thought, it's the monsters who step out into the light that you need to fear.”
― Heather Gudenkauf, The Overnight Guest

“The prison of the mind is greater than my real actual prison.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Doing something when it is hard, because it is the right thing to do, matters more than doing it when it's easy. The world needs light now more than ever.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“The thing about the dead is you can never bring them back. Doesn’t matter how much you love them. Never mind how much money they had or what good they did in this world. Doesn’t matter how much you pray or which god you turn to. It’s set in stone. One shot is all any of us ever get, and I’ve seen enough regrets from beyond to know how true that is.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“We're all what we are because of circumstances larger than we are.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“We are mind, heart and hand. Through these our will is made manifest in the world. We shape it by touching it.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

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

“I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Entire lives aren't lessons, but there are lessons in lives.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“There has to be more to life than just imagining a future for yourself. I can't just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“People waste time and money waiting for the right moments, but we don't all have that luxury.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Life doesn't care about how young you are.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“I had discovered a very special way that women could be dangerous- They were trained to pay close attention too people.”
― Amy Rose Capetta, The Brilliant Death

“You have magic though. Not in a physical sense, but in the words you speak.”
― Amy Rose Capetta, The Storm of Life

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.'

They sat for a while longer, and then parted, for it was late, and they were old and anxious.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife