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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Say car for me”
― Kelly Oram, Cinder & Ella

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“The key to change is letting go of the fear.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Tink's Panties!”
― Kim Harrison

“I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology.”
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“Fuck this. When life gets hard, ask Google. Google knows everything”
― Emma Hart, The Love Game

“As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.”
― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

“You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

“Yeah, well this Gypsy girl happens to have a grandma that can curse you so bad that your dick will turn black and fall off, so watch your step, Spartan.”
― Jennifer Estep, Touch of Frost

“That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

“In suffering, we find the true measure of our strength.”
― Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

“Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”
― Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Desperate men fight best.”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

“Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.”
― Patricia Briggs, River Marked

“Trouble was her default setting.”
― C.J. Daugherty, Night School

“It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest