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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Fear wasn’t just ice in your veins or a beast at your throat. Fear was loving someone so fiercely that there was no point in your heart beating if hers did not.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“I loved you,” he whispered, “when the world was pain and the only thing that made sense was your eyes. I loved you before I knew to hate myself, and I have loved you every day since.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“You are fiendish, Avery Kylie Grambs. As far as distractions go, that one wasn't even fair."

I shrugged. "I play dirty.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Found you,” I said. Once upon a time, I’d been a more gracious winner, but now I relished my victories like a Hawthorne.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“No one ever expected a Xander Inquisition.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Our kind of game.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Tinsel bombs are strongly encouraged,” Jameson added. This was, quite possibly, the single most Hawthorne thing I’d ever heard of.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Xander was no stranger to bad ideas. Or unusual ideas. Or the occasional this-is-either-brilliant-or-an-offense-against-common-sense-and-gravity idea. He was, in fact, a connoisseur of ideas, swishing even the most outlandish possibilities around in his mind and taking a delicate little taste.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“But your family is weird. And that’s coming from me.” The difference is that Hawthornes are weird the way that Stonehenge is weird—magnificent and inexplicable. Hawthornes are invisible-ink weird. Hidden-passageways and secret-traditions weird. They are—and this is an actual example—I-dare-you-to-lick-that-Picasso weird.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Always read the small print, Heiress.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“A refined scone-tasting palate does not develop overnight."
Max narrowed her eyes. "Scones are muffins that got confused.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“You have a secret, I thought. “All right, Hawthorne,” I told him. “Game on.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“That cat-eating-a-canary smile of his made me want to do things.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“And, Heiress?” Jameson’s lips moved down to my jaw, then my neck. “For the record…” I felt him everywhere. My fingernails dug lightly into the skin of his neck. “I would never,” he whispered roughly, “confuse you for a saint.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Men are always so baffled by women’s clothing. So many opinions about a body that does not belong to them. Cover up, don’t cover up - no one can seem to decide.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Women can be heroes.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People hope to touch the sky. I dream of kissing it.”
― Krista Ritchie, Kiss the Sky

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“We are all someone's monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Shame holds more value than coin ever can.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“If your god is so delicate, maybe you should get a new one.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“If you can't beat the odds, change the game”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm