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#1

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

tags: gay, relatable

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#2

“You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women

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#3

“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
― Sappho

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#4

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religion.”
― Sappho

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#5

“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
― Sappho

tags: from-wonder-by-r-j-palacio

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#6

“You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire.”
― Sappho

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#7

“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.”
― Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

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#8

“I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments

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#9

“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery—some things are too precious to gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

tags: avery, jameson, love, love-triangle, mystery, rich, ya

341 likes

#10

“The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

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#11

“There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

tags: the-inheritance-games, win

62 likes

#12

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

tags: avery-grambs, grayson-hawthorne, jameson-hawthorne, the-inheritance-games

532 likes

#13

“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

tags: avery-kylie-grambs, the-hawthorne-legacy, the-inheritance-games

105 likes

#14

“Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it’s smash the patriarchy.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

90 likes

#15

“Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

71 likes

#16

“Why kill two birds with one stone, he always said, when you could kill twelve?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

tags: common-sense, logic, sayings

73 likes

#17

“Secrets, lies, All I despise. The tree is poison, Don’t you see? It poisoned S and Z and me. The evidence I stole Is in the darkest hole. Light shall reveal all I writ upon the…”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

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#18

“Everything’s a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

972 likes

#19

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: independence, inspirational, story

709 likes

#20

“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

446 likes

#21

“Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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#22

“Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: certain, death, life, taxes

344 likes

#23

“why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

322 likes

#24

“Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: the-inheritance-games

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#25

“Where are you going?” I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn’t just walk away. “To hell, eventually,” Jameson answered. “Probably to the wine cellar, for now.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

146 likes

#26

“Right." Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. "No feminism at the dinner table.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: feminism, jennifer-lynn-barnes, the-inheritance-games, thea

149 likes

#27

“I am a human Rube Goldberg machine," he said. "I do simple things in complicated ways”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: complicated

127 likes

#28

“Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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#29

“Jameson Winchester Hawthorne is hungry. He's been looking for something. He's been looking for it since the day he was born.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

113 likes

#30

“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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