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    Laini Taylor
    “Lazlo had loved Sarai as a dream, and he would love her as a ghost as well.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: laini-taylor, lazlo-and-sarai, lazlo-strange, muse-of-nightmares, sarai, strange-the-dreamer
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    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, stories, storytelling, young-adult
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    Laini Taylor
    “If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreams, love
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    Katherine Arden
    “Vasya felt cold despite the steam. “Why would I choose to die?” “It is easy to die,” replied the bannik. “Harder to live.”
    ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
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    Katherine Arden
    “Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”
    ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
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    Laini Taylor
    “I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, stories, storytelling, strange-the-dreamer, young-adult
    732 likes

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    Alexandra Christo
    “You should pay less mind to fairy tales, Elian, or that's all you'll become."
    When he leaves, I think about whether that would be awful, or beautiful. Could it really be such a bad thing, to become a story whispered to children in the dead of night? A song they sing to one another while they play.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
    tags: alexandra-christo, fairy-tale, lira-and-elian, retellings, to-kill-a-kingdom
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    Katherine Arden
    “But yes,” he said wearily. “As I could, I loved you. Now will you go? Live.” “I, too,” she said. “In a childish way, as girls love heroes that come in the night, I loved you.”
    ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
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    Laini Taylor
    “I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreams, fireflys, nightmare, strenghth
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “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.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
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    Alexandra Christo
    “Some people burn so brightly, it's impossible to put the flames out.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
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    Jennifer Niven
    “I was here. TF.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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    Victoria Schwab
    “His heart has a draft. It lets in light. It lets in storms. It lets in everything.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: brothers, chaol, chaol-westfall, dorian, dorian-havilliard, friends, friendship, friendship-and-love, heir-of-fire, love, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
    391 likes

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    Victoria Schwab
    “Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
    ― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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    Alexandra Christo
    “And in another life, if I ever had a choice about who to be, maybe I would have been like him.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “They had survived, when so many had not. And no one ­else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: heir-of-fire, survival
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    Jennifer Niven
    “Finch: Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto
    Violet: I don't know that what means
    Finch: It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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    Katherine Arden
    “Think of me sometimes," he returned. "When the snowdrops have bloomed and the snow has melted.”
    ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
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    Jennifer Niven
    “The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: all-the-bright-places
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    Jennifer Niven
    “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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    Laini Taylor
    “There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: heartache, love, moon, unrequited-love
    274 likes

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    Brigid Kemmerer
    “The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.”
    ― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely
    tags: acsdal, harper, princerhen
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    Brigid Kemmerer
    “I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”
    ― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely
    tags: a-curse-so-dark-and-lonely, beauty-and-the-beast, brigid-kemmerer
    357 likes

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    Laini Taylor
    “It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreaming, dreams, goals, impossible
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    Katherine Arden
    “Solovey will take me to the ends of the earth if I ask it. I am going into the world, Alyosha. I will be no one's bride, neither of man nor of God. I am going to Kiev and Sarai and Tsargrad, and I will look upon the sun on the sea.”
    ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
    tags: adventure
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    Alexandra Christo
    “It's like holding a story rather than a person; she feels wild and infinite in my arms.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
    tags: elian, fairytale-retelling, romantic, tokillakingdom
    137 likes

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    Victoria Schwab
    “There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
    ― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
    tags: dreamer
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    Laini Taylor
    “He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: belief, children, ghosts, magic
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    Laini Taylor
    “You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: good-vs-bad, hate, kill
    422 likes



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