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“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Dinner together? Our last night?”
“A last supper?” Parisa said. “Typically those are hit-or-miss.”
“Nobody bring knives,” Callum remarked from his spot by the window.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“Good," said Olivia. She paused before asking, "May I have a hug, please? I don't want to impose. But I very much want a hug right now.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“But then she put her hands on Mary's shoulders and kissed both her cheeks. Well, Mary didn't mind. Irene was the most interesting woman she had ever met. They were not in competition, but if they had been, she would happily have lost to Irene Norton.”
― Theodora Goss, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman

“It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.
But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“All you can do, Rosemary – all any of us can do – is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Knowledge that can be imparted loudly and with passion always lasts longer than knowledge that has to be whispered.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Instead of disappearing, she makes me feel reappeared. Reimagined. Her touch shapes me, draws out the boldness that had been hiding in my core.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone’s love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The choices you make will change you over time, Sancia. Make sure they don’t change you into something you don’t recognize—or you might wind up like me.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“Fire in, fear out”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Gregor Dandolo did his utmost to follow the laws: both the laws of the city, and his own moral laws of the universe. But more and more these days, one seemed to disagree with the other.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“Through her eyes, I was able to experience the story for the first time all over again.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“they were 'the Muses' bringing brilliance down from upon high”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall

“I do not possess any of the wonders of your world, Steve Trevor. But if something must be broken... I would rather it were bars, shackles, and chains.”
― Marguerite Bennett, DC Comics: Bombshells #1

“I'd never felt more instantly connected to a person in my life. I didn't love her immediately. I was already too wary for that. But I recognized something in her, something I wanted to be but couldn't even articulate yet: free.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Did you see any rice in there? Maybe we could fill Cinder's head with it."

Everyone stared at him.

"You know, to...absorb the moisture, or something. Isn't that a thing?"

"We're not putting rice in my head.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Nope! Gonna cut you off right there. The last time I listened to a Firebender talk about 'honor' my ears nearly rotted off my skull. Had to kick him out of my bed with both feet.”
― F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi

“The whole Creation was waiting for Rincewind to drop in. He did so. There didn't seem to be any alternative.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Having a sister, mom says, is a place only the two of them will share, made of secrets they never have to say aloud - but if they did, it would be in a language only the two of them could speak. Having a sister is a promise no one but the two of you can make - and no one but the two of you can break.”
― Courtney Summers, The Project