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“It'll all end in tears and oil.”
― Gail Carriger, Etiquette & Espionage

“One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.”
― Gail Carriger, Blameless

“No one knows what he or she is capable of until things are at their darkest.”
― A.G. Howard, Splintered

“He ... boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable.”
― Gail Carriger, Etiquette & Espionage

“Are you seriously telling me the truth about all this?" I asked.
"I seriously am," he replied. "I was also serious about stealing a fry.”
― Lindsay Ribar, The Art of Wishing

“...Oh god. I'm one of those girls."
"What girls?" he asked, perplexed.
"Those girls. The ones in all those books and TV shows. Some dumb high school girl falls in love with some supernatural guy, and he's all, 'Behold, I am five million years old!' and she's all, 'Oh my god, how can you ever love pathetic little me!' and he's like, 'Because of destiny!' or whatever. It's just so...ew. You know?”
― Lindsay Ribar, The Art of Wishing

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“A minute or so passed by--not long, but long enough to make me wonder whether Oliver was setting up mood lighting or hiding dead bodies. Or if someone was up there waiting to stab me again. Or if someone was up there waiting to hand me a crown and tell me I was the long-lost princess of Genovia. Or if I'd tumble into a pit of lava, only to get saved at the last second by a flying carpet.”
― Lindsay Ribar, The Art of Wishing

“The voice in her head told her not to trust him. But then, the voice in her head didn't trust anyone.”
― C.J. Daugherty, Night School

“Trouble was her default setting.”
― C.J. Daugherty, Night School

“I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Authenticity was the key to any deception.
Sometimes authenticity was disgusting.”
― Jodi Meadows, The Orphan Queen

“I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" — a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared – most of all – to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself... then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I've come to believe.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Was I starting to feel evil? Yes, now I was worrying I'd be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education