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  • #1
    Genevieve Cogman
    “Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?'
    Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #2
    Genevieve Cogman
    “How?' Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic reasoning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for them selves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #3
    Genevieve Cogman
    “and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out, and have nothing to worry about, except the next page of whatever she was reading.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #4
    Genevieve Cogman
    “We are the Library," Coppelia pointed out. "What we don't know, we research.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #5
    Genevieve Cogman
    “She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out and have nothing to worry about except the next page of whatever she was reading,”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #6
    Genevieve Cogman
    “And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #7
    Genevieve Cogman
    “Belgium always seems to get invaded, fall prey to meteorites or get infested by alien fungus or something . . .”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #8
    Genevieve Cogman
    “And she didn’t want great secrets of necromancy, or any other sort of magic. She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #9
    Genevieve Cogman
    “no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #10
    Genevieve Cogman
    “Irene didn’t dignify his question with an answer. Besides, he’d learn better. A Librarian’s mission to seek out books for the Library developed, after a few years, into an urge to find out everything that was going on around one. It wasn’t even a personal curiosity. It was a simple, impersonal, uncontrollable need to know. One came to terms with it. She lifted off the Canopic jar’s stylized jackal-head lid. ‘There’s something in here,’ she reported.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #11
    Genevieve Cogman
    “She just wanted - had always wanted - a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job. Getting the books - now, that was what *really* mattered to her.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #12
    Genevieve Cogman
    “Involvements with glamorous female cat burglars never end up well.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #13
    Genevieve Cogman
    “..all of us who are sealed to the Library are people who have chosen this way of life because we love books. None of us wanted to save worlds. I mean, not that we object to saving worlds..." She shrugged, picking up her teacup again "We want books. We love books. We live with books.”
    Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

  • #14
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
    Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #15
    Sarah J. Maas
    “He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #16
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #17
    Sarah J. Maas
    “There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?"
    "Guns?" asked Jesper.
    "Ships?" queried Inej.
    "Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
    "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
    "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
    "Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
    "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
    "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #25
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #26
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #27
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #28
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #29
    Leigh Bardugo
    Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

  • #30
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
    Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,” he said. “They just do it in better clothes.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm



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