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    Mary E. Pearson
    “Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: ya-fantasy
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “What did they do to you, Kazi?” His voice was low, earnest. Even in the dim light, I was able to see the worry in his eyes.
    I pretended I didn’t know what he was talking about. “Who did what?”
    “Who made you afraid of an open world? An open sky? Was it Venda? Your parents?”
    “No one did anything,” I answered quietly.
    “Then hold on to me,” he said. “Let me show you the stars.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-romance
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: too-late, truth, ya-fantasy
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “I do want tomorrows with you, Jase. I want a lifetime of tomorrows.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: fantasy, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-romance
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “It's awkward, isn't it?" he said.
    "What's that?" I replied, my voice far too breathy.
    "These moments when we're not hating each other.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: fantasy, ya
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “Yes, I want to kiss you, Jase Ballenger. Not for show or to make the best of it. I want to kiss you because I want you, every part of you, even the parts that infuriate me beyond telling, because you’ve infected me with a poison that I don’t want to flush out, because you’re a mad viper twisting
    around my middle, cutting off my breath, yet I want you more than I want to breathe. Yes, Jase, I want to kiss you, just because I do, but the one thing I cannot do is promise you any tomorrows.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-romance
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “I like you, Jase Ballenger,” I said softly. “I think if you weren’t a thief, we might be friends.”
    “And if you didn’t whisk out knives and threaten to cut pretty necks, I think we might be friends too.”
    I wrinkled my nose. “Oh, how obsessed you are with your pretty neck.”
    His hands tightened on my wrists. He pulled me close, his teeth nipping at my neck and between kisses, he whispered, “It is not my neck I am obsessed with, Kazi of Brightmist.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-romance
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    Kiera Cass
    “It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Elite
    tags: together
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
    tags: crule-life, dead, destroy, dream, dreams, fraction, kill, life, lost, lost-dream, mold, mold-a-dream, second, shattered, years, years-of-struggle
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “We all have our different skills. You’re patient to a fault, which sometimes doesn’t work to your advantage. I, on the other hand, have the patience of a wet cat. Only on rare occasions does that come in handy.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
    “Some things last.”
    I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
    “The things that matter.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Ally Condie
    “It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: memory, nostalgia
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    Kiera Cass
    “Love is beautiful fear”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Elite
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    Kiera Cass
    “I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
    tags: america, maxon
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: friendship, heart, kindness
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    Ally Condie
    “Once you want something, everything changes.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: truths
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    Jen Calonita
    “Snow pouted. "I hate roses! They hurt!"
    Her mother smiled, her image softening along with the sound of her voice. She seemed so far away. "They can, yes, when you get nicked by a thorn." She plucked a single red rose off the bush. It was petrified from the snow and frozen, but still perfectly preserved and almost crimson in color. Snow peered at it closely. "But you shouldn't be afraid to hold on to something beautiful, even if there are thorns in your path. If you want something, sometimes you have to take risks. And when you do"- she handed Snow the rose- "you reap wonderful rewards.”
    ― Jen Calonita, Mirror, Mirror
    tags: motherly-love, roses, snow-white, take-risks, thorns
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
    “Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Kiera Cass
    “I hit your thigh!”
    “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
    tags: america, maxon
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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