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“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“All for one and one for all.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“People in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Tous pour un, un pour tous”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick.'
Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

“Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.”
"Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

“His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign

For she would be Queen of Lumatere.

But he would be king to her.”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

“You grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

“I don't love you. And I can kill anything.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Her smiles were shorter. Her laugh was louder. She became distracted at times, and would stare at nothing with a look of shattered sorrow that passed like a cloud the moment someone spoke her name. She loved less quickly, but more fiercely, and made certain that those she cared for knew it well. Sometimes she wept when it snowed.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“Some people knew how to kill a conversation. Cura, on the other hand, could make it wish it had never been born.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“It’s not enough to survive what we do, Tam. We must also endure it.” “What’s the difference?” she asked. “One concerns the body, the other the mind. Every battle has a cost,” he said quietly. “Even the ones we win.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“Gods fuck me,” said Roderick, managing the impressive feat of swearing and praying at the same time.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“Hubris, man. It’s killed more heroes than monsters ever did.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“How? I am a demon and a nightmare; I die every spring, and I will live forever.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome into his house, so I might burn it down.
But then his daughter takes my hand, and I feel all the lies fall heavy on my shoulders. They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“Witches are not so delicate.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Most men do not know me for what I am.”
“Most men in my experience are fools,” he said.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Odysseus had told me once that half of a duel is maneuvering around the sun, trying to get the light to stab at your enemy's eyes. But I was the blood of Helios, and no light could blind me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Yet you would dare to stay?"
"I dare anything," he said.
And that is how we came to be lovers.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It was our weakness that drew the war out, not her strength.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“This is the problem with making a thing forbidden. It does nothing but build an ache in the heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Magic doesn’t require beauty,’ she said. 'Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic