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#1

“Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

#2

“Isobel. Isobel, listen. The teapot is of no consequence. I can defeat anyone, at any time.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

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#3

“Life,” he said softly, “is more than ﬂesh. Your body is a candle, your soul the ﬂame. The longer I burn the candle...” He did not ﬁnish.
“A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick,” I said.“I would rather light the ﬂame, knowing it will go out than sit forever in darkness.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

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#4

“She was the sun and he was the earth waking from a thaw.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

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#5

“The kiss is sweeter than sin and fiercer than temptation. I am not gentle, I am not kind; I am rough and wild and savage.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

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#6

“You are the monster I claim, mein Herr.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

tags: love, monsters, ya, young-adult

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#7

“Hell is caring about other people.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

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#8

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

tags: destruction, freedom

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#9

“Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: genya

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#10

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#11

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#12

“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

tags: the-darkling

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#13

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#14

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

tags: desire, drunk, foolish, kiss, sick, want

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#15

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: jude

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#16

“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

tags: cardan-greenbriar, love, romance

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#17

“But the worst kind of monster was the burrowing kind. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from the inside out.”
― Emily Carroll

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#18

“Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

tags: love, romance

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#19

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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#20

“Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: shirley-jackson, the-haunting-of-hill-house

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#21

“No, she couldn't remember the first book she'd eaten, but she could remember the first book she'd eaten purposefully. And that was maybe more important.”
― Katrina Leno, Horrid

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#22

“Love your younger self, and let them die.”
― N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

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#23

“She's not weak, she's not frail or breakable or scared of much. She is the storm that tears away roofs and knocks over trees.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

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#24

“I don't want to be alone. I don't want the crack inside me to widen, for the ocean of loneliness to creep in. I don't want to drown.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

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#25

“Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

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#26

“You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

tags: cruelty, future, heart, marie-lu, past, the-midnight-star, the-young-elites

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#27

“We are drawn to stories,” he says in a soft voice, “and every scar carries one.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

tags: marie-lu, the-rose-society, the-young-elite

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#28

“I’m going to follow her, of course,” Magiano says. “As the night sky turns. When she appears on the other side of the world, I will be there, and when she returns here, so will I.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

tags: adelina-amouteru, magiano, marie-lu, the-midnight-star, the-young-elites

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#29

“Mhe varujta. Trust me as if my soul were yours.”
― Susan Dennard, Windwitch

tags: aeduan, iseult-det-midenzi

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#30

“From the day she had stabbed Aeduan in the heart, that heart had become hers—and she would not let this be his end.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

tags: aeduan-iseult

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