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“Fate can't be twisted and turned as you like. What's meant for you is meant, no matter which turn you take or hurdle you stumble at, you'll always end up on the path that's meant for you.”
― Lucy Jane Wood, Rewitched

“She had found true magic and would hold onto it tightly with both hands.”
― Lucy Jane Wood, Rewitched

“Ignorance had always been a defining feature of the privileged.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Death bleeds red no matter of the color of one's skin.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Family isn't who we live with but those we would die for.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“We’ll have ourselves a tempest of tea on the horizon.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Doubt is of the devil."
"More often than not, *you* are the devil," Jin replied.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Anoshe was a word for strangers in the street, and lovers between meetings, for parents and children, friends and family. It softened the blow of leaving. Eased the strain of parting. A careful nod to the certainty of today, the mystery of tomorrow. When a friend left, with little chance of seeing home, they said anoshe. When a loved one was dying, they said anoshe. When corpses were burned, bodies given back to the earth and souls to the stream, those left grieving said anoshe.

Anoshe brought solace. And hope. And the strength to let go.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“She was a thief, a runaway, a pirate, a magician.
She was fierce, and powerful, and terrifying.
She was still a mystery.
And he loved her.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Scars are not shameful, not unless you let them be. If you do not wear them, they will wear you.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“I told you to keep him safe, not cuddle."
Alucard spread his hands behind him on the sheets. "I'm more than capable of multitasking”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“All that time, she remembered me, she was just waiting for me to remember her.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“You may have ruined my life, June. But first, you gave me one.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“We’d had no beginning, I realized. We just always were. When I thought about it like that, it was comforting. Like there was no waiting for an end, either.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Reading lets us live in someone else’s shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You are in all of my happiest places.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I want my life to be like-like making pottery. I want to enjoy it while it's happening, not just for where it might get me eventually.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I welcome her to this great big beautiful life.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“There’s an old saying about stories, and how there are always three versions of them: yours, mine, and the truth.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People