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“We never know what is going to happen, do we? Life is always throwing us this way and that. That’s where the adventure is. Not knowing where you’ll end up or how you’ll fare. It’s all a mystery, and when we say any different, we’re just lying to ourselves. Tell me, when have you felt most alive?”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“Then you're a warrior. That's what you are. Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass - The Subtle Knife - The Amber Spyglass and Lyra's Oxford

“Chase death, Moonbeam. And I pray your bloodlust brings you the same sense of peace I feel just knowing you exist.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees.”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“To the quiet girls with stories in their heads.
To their dreams—and their nightmares.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“He came for the girl... And got the monster instead.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“I’m not your secret. I’m your truth.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched

“Do you want to fight or fuck about it?”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde