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“Behold the lavish tent under which the overeducated mingle, well versed in every art but the one of conversation.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“They laugh. What’s so fucking funny? I want to say. But I don’t. I laugh with them. Ha. Haha. Hahaha.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“Read. Be a guest in other worlds.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“Because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them—especially people whose culture of plenty has left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm. Good people will turn monstrous when it’s down to their survival or someone else’s.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“men have gotten away with selling themselves as protectors and saviors when they’ll sacrifice their inferiors—women, Kwen, their own children—the moment it’s convenient for them.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“I'd convinced myself if I became the best, it didn't matter who I hurt, because in the end, it would be worth it. Even if I hurt myself most of all.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“You remember your father with the eyes of a little girl. I remember him as a woman,”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“You were honest with men and they ate your heart, then spat it out. You couldn't let them see the naked self beneath the mascara and rouge. You couldn't let them find you curled up and small in the middle of the bed.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome

“Your father underestimated the weapon he built. And through his cruelty, he forced you to play for yourself and yourself alone. But I will play for you, if you will play for me, too.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“The choices of others are not a burden I carry any longer, and neither is their shame.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“I find it interesting that any time a girl is unusual, or dare I say, unique, she’s deemed evil, or cursed.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“Emotions I was forced to keep hidden for fear of looking possessed by evil, as girls were often perceived when they felt too much.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“Everything is poison with the proper dose. Even you.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“No sin so dangerous as the sin that is chosen.

No sin so glorious as the sin that is shared.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Hearts only bruise. They never break.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“What kind of hero are you?'
Gabriel laughed, shaking his head.
'Who the fuck told you I was a hero?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“When your whole world is going to hell, all you need is someone who sounds like he knows the way.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“You’re past is stone, but your future clay. And you decide the shape of the life you’ll make.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books, and he’ll know a million truths. Put him in a room for a year with silence, and he’ll know himself.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“If we spend all our lives in darkness, is it any wonder when darkness starts to live in us?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“My friends are the hill I die on.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“De León. Ye live."
'"Sadly."
'"How?" he hissed.
'"God didn't want me. And the devil was afraid to open the door.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“I felt a wave of nostalgia, that sweet poison seeping into my heart, that vain and selfish desire to dwell among glories of the past, when days were better and simpler, when all the world seemed bright, tinted rose-red in the halls of memory. But it’s a fool who looks with more fondness to the days behind than the ones ahead. And it’s a man drenched in defeat who sings that sad refrain; that things were better then.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“They say the best revenge is living well, but there's still a lot to be said for dancing beneath the blood moons in a cloak made of your enemy's skin.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“I’ll be forced to spend my days at her service but never at her side. In her shadow but never truly seen. In love with a girl I’d have bowed to long before she became my queen.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearless

“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

“It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

“You built a nice adulthood over the ruins of a shitty adolescence,” my therapist once said, and I enjoy the mental image of it. The idea of life as something I could choose, cultivate day by day, curate and nurture. Being mindful, instead of reactive.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance