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“They’ll find us,” she said, turning toward him again. “They’ll see where it lands.” He shook his head. “We’ll be fine.” “How do you know?” she asked. “Because this day is too perfect to be ruined now.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“We need those moments as surely as the air, and they linger. Potent. Yes, a person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones. But our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Then she felt ashamed. Because guilt has a great number of friends and keeps their addresses handy for quick summons.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Some people say this world of ours is just a tumbling stone No soul, no guide, no heart within, mere atoms all alone But I believe there’s more to things than simply meets the eyes There’s good and bad—and so I say: Make sure the good survives.”
― Ben Guterson, Winterhouse

“I don’t know how it’s possible to miss someone and resent them, to love them and hate them all at the same time. To be glad they’re gone and simultaneously wish they were still here.”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder

“The human brain is little more than three pounds and can be held in two cupped hands, but the emotions it produces are so big, so nebulous and tangled. And sometimes those tangled emotions feel like thorny brambles that I’ve stumbled and fallen into, scraped knees and scarred palms that constantly remind me of the past.  How much of that past do I keep? How much do I let go? And how do I separate the two?”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder

“The reason this kind of neighborhood is the American dream is not that it’s fancy or aesthetically pleasing or whatever. Human beings like those things, but what we really crave is stability. We want to go to bed at night and know that things will still be okay when we wake up. We want to rest easy. And that’s the feeling a white picket fence gives off: safety. Stability.”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder

“You were always the best of us, Sazed,” he said quietly. “Because you believed in something.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“Me: Because life isn’t always rainbows and sunshine.  Zahra: Of course not. But how can we appreciate the sun every morning if we don’t live through the dark?”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“for a man’s passion is not true until he proves how much he’s willing to sacrifice for it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“You are alive, I tell myself. You feel pain, which means you are not defeated.”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Heidi Lucy Loses Her Mind

“Before a woman is ever meant to be someone’s wife or someone’s mother or anything else, she is meant to be herself. That is where we anchor ourselves. We can add the rest on, but they’re not where we begin. You are yourself first and foremost.”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Heidi Lucy Loses Her Mind

“We are none of us born warriors,” Orka muttered. “It is the world that makes us so.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“She not only defied society, she owned that defiance. She had forged a crown for herself when the world told her she was not meant to have one.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“What a world it is, Signum,” said Fayazi, “where you are forced to change yourself, break yourself, all for a little scrap of money.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“The Empire is strong because it recognizes the value in all our people. Including you, Dinios Kol. And when the Empire is weak, it is often because a powerful few have denied us the abundance of our people.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“We did not talk any more of what we’d witnessed, he at the walls and I in the city. The things we’d seen and done now felt too big for words. Silence was a better language.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“Yes…” said Kepheus sadly. “It must be a hard thing, to go from the Legion to the Iudex.” “Why so?” “Well, in the Legion, you know each wet season if you have won or lost. Yet in the Iudex, you can do all your duties aright, and catch every crooked soul—but at the end, there is no putting right what wrong was done.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“Someone, after all, must do the undignified labor to keep the grand works of our era from tumbling down. I simply perform maintenance, in my own little way.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“I glanced down at my boots, now worn and stained from all my travels. They didn’t look quite so bad, I thought. Perhaps they would look even better with a bit more wear.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“I had never known happiness before her. But if there is to be an after in which she doesn’t exist, I know I never will again.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“If darkness is the absence of light, then that is what I am when she is not around.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“I liked to consider myself a pretty level, confident, easygoing person. I didn’t get flustered or anxious about dates. But everything I knew about myself prior to the moment I laid eyes on her was no longer true. I was a nervous wreck. Instantly.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Why not forgive? In a world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy, Justin.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I’d hoped the distance would make it easier to let her go. But it hadn’t. It just made me miss her more.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I missed her like I missed the sun in the winter.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“It isn’t glamorous, it isn’t all butterflies and stars in your eyes. It’s real. This is the kind of love that forever is made of. Because if it’s this good when life is draining and mundane and hard, think of how wonderful it will be when the love songs are playing and the moon is out.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Home is something that’s always there, I realized. No matter where you are in the world, you know it’s where you left it, unchanged and waiting.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Strange, that their cruelty will bring about their own downfall.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods