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#1

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

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#2

“But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown

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#3

“That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown

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#4

“I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

tags: han, love, raisa

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#5

“The saddest thing is there won’t be anyone to miss us when we’re gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home.”
“It’s better that way,” I said. “It’ll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn’t add to anyone’s pain.”
“If you can’t give anyone pain, then you can’t give them joy either.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

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#6

“I won't start the battle, but if it comes, I'll finish it.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King

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#7

“Nobody gives you respect in this life. You must take it, you must earn it, and then you must hold it sacred, because no matter how hard respect is to attain, it can be lost in an instant.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne

tags: jaron, roden

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#8

“I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen

tags: sage, the-false-prince

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#9

“Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances."
Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?”
― Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

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#10

“All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

tags: choices, responsibility

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#11

“I love stupid plans.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

tags: plans, stupidity

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#12

“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

tags: eugenides

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#13

“These people make my family look easy to get along with.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: family

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#14

“But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: independence, isolation, loneliness, privacy

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#15

“I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

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#16

“Oh gods, stairs.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: eugenides

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#17

“I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

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#18

“She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

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#19

“Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can't. Even I am not that good a liar.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King

tags: imogen, sage

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#20

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: fear, love, power, powerful

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#21

“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: identity, love, loyalty, tris

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#22

“The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: allegiant

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#23

“I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: fears, four, inspire, overcome-overcome, tobias

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#24

“I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: forgiveness, love, tobias, tris

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#25

“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: christina, four, tobias

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#26

“Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: distance, love, tobias-eaton, tris

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#27

“I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: faith, god

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#28

“So small as to be negligible.

It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: tris-prior

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#29

“Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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#30

“And I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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