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“That's like saying Firefly's Mal was just Han Solo. He wasn't.”
― Trent Jamieson, Death Most Definite

“This would be all so very Mad Max if I was driving a V8, and if it wasn't me.”
― Trent Jamieson, Death Most Definite

“He turned down the street to Emilio's, trying to remember what "the edge of chaos" meant. It was something about flipping a coin, something about the edge being the moment when the coin was in the air. The point at which the system was pure potential, about to choose a path. Or something about a pile of sand, adding sand a grain at a time, and the edge of chaos being the point at which the critical grain landed and the pile either shifted or turned into an avalanche...
...Min bit her lip and smiled at him ruefully, and without another thought, he walked across the room to her, feeling almost relieved as the avalanche began.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“I didn’t look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“It's a corporate truth universally acknowledged that workers would rather eat rat skeletons than participate in group activities.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I bring homemade cakes to my meetings with the division heads and they all adore me. I’m described as “worth my weight in gold.” Joshua brings bad news to his divisional meetings and his weight is measured in other substances.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“He's not his immaculate self today. He's a little rough around the edges, probably from a few bad nights' sleep. His mustard shirt is the ugliest colour I have ever seen. His tie is badly knotted, his jaw is shadowed with stubble. His hair is a mess and has a devil's horn on one side. He's practically a Gamin today. He looks divine and he's looking at me with a memory in his eyes.”
― Sally Thorne

“relative weight of grief is immaterial. Being smothered a little is no different than being smothered a lot. Either way, you can’t breathe.”
― Heather Cocks, The Royal We

“I can't truly have stopped breathing while he talked, but broken ceiling fans push air with more purpose than my lungs did.”
― Heather Cocks, The Royal We

“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“He was not thinking about tactics. That man had laid hands on Laurent, and Damen was going to kill him.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently—that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“For the record," Snow grumbled. "I don't want to spend any more time with you either."
Stupid boy... Baz sighed to himself, taking in Snow's tense shoulders, the flush of anger in his neck, and the thick fall of bronze hair partially trapped in his goggles... What do you know about want?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“If you were sitting quietly on your couch, waiting for your girlfriend to come back inside so you could finish watching your movie, and while you were waiting, someone called you up and said “I’ll give you a million dollars if you can guess what’s going to happen next,” you absolutely would not guess “I am going to be brutally and unexpectedly attacked by a goose in my own home.” Even if you had a hundred guesses, you would not guess that.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

“She reminded herself bitterly that this was what curiosity had bought her: fifty keystones for a singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, some one who was hers and yet would never be hers.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Justice and revenge had been only part of my motivation for leaving Ashford. I'd run from my grief, from their pain, from being a shadow of another person, better loved for bitterly lost, and Ireland hadn't been nearly far enough.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“I was not one of those girls who needed to fix broken boys.”
― Kasie West, By Your Side

“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“A kingdom, or this.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“The memory of our kiss paced between us like a dangerous animal. Neither of us wanted to touch it.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Shadow Society

“Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“The storm walked around the hills on legs of lightning, shouting and grumbling.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“Here’s what life has taught me so far: don’t worry about that thing you’re worrying about. Chances are, it’ll be obliterated by something you didn’t anticipate that’s a million times worse.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me