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“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“A true man won’t cut you down as you fight your battles, nor will he fight them for you. A true man will help sharpen your sword, guard your back and fight at your side, in the face of whatever darkness comes.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“ If I were a man, I would fight him.
If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men… She stared at her fingers curled into the dirt. It did not matter. They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.
Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“When women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“If only she could just stop being so wonderful for a moment, he could figure out exactly what to do with all of his feelings for her.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Eclipse of the Crown

“Do you want to change this world, little serpent? Then climb your cage until you are so high no one can catch you. Break its bars and make them your weapons. Nothing is sharper. I know because I did it”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“A bad book begins and ends with the words on the pages. A good book gives you the feeling that it began long before you ever started reading. But a great book goes on long after you stop.”
― R. Lee Smith quoting her mother

“Men want power because it makes them feel good. Women want power because it lets us do things.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“If you’d stop being a prick to her, she might end up liking you,” Sam said as he pulled an entire banana out of his pocket. “How did you fit a banana in your pants?” “My pants already carry something much larger.” Sam grinned as he peeled the fruit and took a large bite.”
― Jamie Applegate Hunter, The Umbra King

“In the sight of the Gods who chose her, and you pathetic cunts while I still let you live, I claim Alora as my moiety.”
― K.M. Parke, From the Sun

“Everyone has a moral line they won’t cross.” His chest heaved, and Amelia braced a trembling hand against his chest. “I don’t need a line to know what’s considered good or bad, but if I did, there isn’t a line I wouldn’t cross for you.” He lowered himself and brushed his lips against hers. “I will write your name on my chest with the blood of any man who tries to covet what is meant to be ours. Innocent or not.”
― Jamie Applegate Hunter, Viciously Yours

“There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster they became.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“You are moving even as we speak, so you need to decide what it is you really want and how much you’re really willing to give up to achieve it, because everything you do and say, every decision that you make, can only bring you closer to your goal or further from it.”
― R. Lee Smith, Land of the Beautiful Dead

“Love means constantly saying you’re sorry, whether you mean it or not, whether you’re wrong or not. Love means trying to stop keeping score.”
― R. Lee Smith, Land of the Beautiful Dead

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion. Those people will believe you even when the truth is dancing naked in front of them. Because to believe otherwise would mean their entire world has always been a lie. And that realization is too difficult for most people to take.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I want you. I want you as much as I loathe you—so much, it feels like I can’t breathe.” His parted lips dragged across my cheek, his whisper scathing near my ear. “Give me back my fucking breath.”
― Ella Fields, Amid Clouds and Bones

“You were all my best days…and most of my worst ones, too, but that’s all right. The worst ones weren’t any worse than they might have been with anyone else, but the best ones were so much better. I love you.”
― R. Lee Smith, Land of the Beautiful Dead

“You have to want the time you have.”
Azrael uttered a low, humorless laugh and said, “Why?”
Lan shrugged. “Because you have it, whether you want it or not. And
life is motion. That’s something else he used to say all the time. You can
move toward what you want or away from it, but you can’t stop, so you have
to want the time you have, because it’s all the time you get.”
“That loses its intended impact when ‘all the time you get’ is all the
time there is.”
“Master Wickham would say that only means you have a limitless
potential for change.”
“Would he indeed?”
“He’d say no one can live your life for you and no one else can waste
it. He’d say you carry the sole responsibility for your own success or failure.”
― R. Lee Smith, Land of the Beautiful Dead