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“Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.”
― Kate Reed

“What is courage without fear?”
― Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen

“Anything can be changed by those who have the courage to blaze their own path.”
― Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen

“But what is freedom without peace of mind?”
― Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as some lord's breeding sow.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“My soul sees its equal in you.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“From the stars, to the stars.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“That is not the way of it. Your future is not set in stone, my dearest star. A coin turns on itself a number of times before it lands.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“This town was built on revenge,” I say. “And it’s never made anything better or right.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“Perhaps I loved the monstrous because I was a monster. Josef, the Goblin King, and me. We were grotesques in the world above, too different, too odd, too talented, too much. We were all too much.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Shadowsong

“What’s the use of running, if we are on the wrong road.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“There is music in your soul. A wild and untamed sort
of music that speaks to me. It defies all the rules and laws you humans set upon it. It grows from inside you, and I have a wish to set that music free.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“No one needs to ask for a woman’s opinion. It’s expected that she gives it freely.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“Death is a thief”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“They celebrate love as though it's power, even though it has killed far more humans than I ever have.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Technically, I’m a murderer, but I like to think that’s one of my better qualities.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“In my heart, I’m as wild as the ocean that raised me.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom