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“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

“I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“She shivered as he left her to go to the fire, and find water and cloths. He leaned into the light, and brightness and shadows moved across his body. He was beautiful. She admired him, and he flashed a grin at her. Almost as beautiful as you are conceited, she thought at him, and he laughed out loud.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“She looked at him then, but his image blurred behind tears that swelled into her eyes. She must leave. She must leave this room, because she wanted to hit him, as she had sworn she never would do. She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart that she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.
"You lied to me," she said.
She turned and ran from the room.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“He was handsome, like Po, and confident, like Po, and so much more authoritative in his bearing than Po could ever be. But - this Katsa came gradually to understand - he was not drunk on his power. He might never dream of helping a sailor to haul a rope, but he would stand with the sailor interestedly while the sailor hauled the rope, and ask him questions about the rope, about his work, his home, his mother and father, his cousin who spent a year once in the lakes of Nander. It struck Katsa that there was a thing she'd never encountered: a king who looked at his people, instead of looking over their heads, a king who saw outside himself.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“You're afraid of your own anger.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“I can't know your feelings", he said ,"if you don't know them yourself.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures