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“And what was Ara if not a piece of her heart?”
― Mark Lawrence, Bound

“True friends are always together in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Everyone's different inside their head.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“She is my family, and they tried to hurt me through her. I’ve tried to send her away for her own protection, and she crossed the entire empire to save me. I will never leave her again.”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“Everyone should be afraid of those who can embroider. We have the patience to keep stabbing the same thing over and over again.”
― C.B. Lee, A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix

“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“They expect her to run. They know she will run. And she does. But at them.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“If I wasn't a human girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“It is important, when killing a novice, to ensure you bring a force of sufficient size.”
― Mark Lawrence, Bound

“Claire lived by the firm moral philosophy that one could never have too many pockets, too many books, or too much tea.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“Maybe a library isn’t defined by what it holds. Maybe it is defined by what it does.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words

“Whatever I do from now on will be lovelier and richer, because I understand what's important now.”
― Katie O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival

“I want to keep making things for people to love and give them a good story. Maybe one day, someone'll look at a piece I made, and think about who gave it to them... Or where they bought it. Or who owned it before. Isn't that kind of a magic?”
― Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society

“Everything that happens is part of your wholeness. The sadness, the loss, the hurt, as well as the joy, the love, the friendship--it is all part of your tapestry.”
― Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry

“So, a heart could shatter.
So, the shattering of a heart could have a sound.
What does that sound like?
Like the sound of the sky collapsing, thunderous and deafening. Darkness fell before her eyes.”
― 请君莫笑, 泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng]

“There is no library of secrets. Secrets cannot be kept or curated. Secrets have no need for a library but each library needs secrets. Books are a secret hidden in plain sight. Read me, they say. Look at me. Turn my pages. Touch my spine. Read my words, and content yourself.

Every book is a secret that only readers know.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Archive of the Forgotten

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Imagination is what you need.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The stars are always on your side.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“We're here to make magic with words”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Hello.
I hope somebody is listening.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“You can't rush creativity. It's like the rain. You wait and wait and wait, and when it finally comes, it soaks the earth and revives all the plants.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“The magic is not in the ceremony of pouring the tea or the sharing of the cup. It is in the connection, the brief joining of souls. The tea leaves are a channel, the ingredients the signposts.”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“You are made up of stars and the black glittering universe.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“Stories are both an escape from the truths of the world and the only way to see them clearly.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea