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“Grief means we loved fiercely…and if that is all anyone ever has to say about either one of us in the end, I think we lived our best life.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Having enemies is a universal truth. It means you have something worth fighting for.

- Hermes”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Fate does not make sense, that is why it is so easy to blame.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“I am the sky and the power of every storm that has ever been. I am infinite.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“My lungs only fill when hers do, and the time between my heartbeats is filled with sharp, all-consuming fear.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“...but people who are in love enough to marry - the ones that people know are together before they even realize it - never consist of just one person, one personality, or one will. They fight. They argue. They disagree. They make up. They talk. They agree. The one thing they never are is perfect.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Thank you."
"For what?" The tough of his fingertips was light, but a shiver still rolled through me.
"For choosing me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I was raised in a cage so pretty that it took a very long time for me to see it for what it was.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“And bow before the…before the last descendent of the most ancient ones, she who carries the blood of the King of the Gods within her. Bow before your new Queen.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“To whatever end?” she breathed. Rowan followed her, as he had his entire life, long before they had ever met, before their souls had sparked into existence. “To whatever end, Fireheart.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“I am here, I am with you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“Aelin looked at Chaol and Dorian and sobbed. Opened her arms to them, and wept as they held each other. “I love you both,” she whispered. “And no matter what may happen, no matter how far we may be, that will never change.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“And it was not darkness, but light—light, bright and pure as the sun on snow, that erupted from Asterin.
Light, as Asterin made the Yielding.
As the Thirteen, their broken bodies scattered around the tower in a near-circle, made the Yielding as well.
Light. They all burned with it. Radiated it.
Light that flowed from their souls, their fierce hearts as they gave themselves over to that power. Became incandescent with it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“We are the Thirteen,” she said. “From now until the Darkness claims us.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“I know you are tired, Fireheart. I know that the burden on your shoulders is more than anyone should endure. But we'll face this together. Erawan, the Lock, all of it. We'll face it together... We'll face it together. And if the cost of it truly is you, then we'll pay it together. As one soul in two bodies.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I know very well, though, that In-yo never hated Kao-fan. She may have pitied her, or been angry with her, or simply found her irritating or foolish or unfashionable. Hate, however, was reserved for equals, and as far as In-yo was concerned, she had no equals in all the empire.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Let him kill himself,” I said finally. “As long as he is dead, that is all that matters to me.” That’s something I think peasants understand better than nobles. For them, the way down matters, whether you are skewered by a dozen guardsmen or thrown in a silk sack to drown or allowed to remove your robe and walk down to the shores of the lake before you gut yourself. Peasants understand that dead is dead.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“I realized that everything we hold dear can be taken from us, except for one thing: the lessons learned. The things Father has taught me.” A pause. “Before he died, he told me to seek justice—not revenge.”
― June Hur, The Red Palace

“Everyone must choose the paths they will walk. And when you choose, remember to count the cost. Do not live with regrets.”
― June Hur, The Red Palace

“In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Water that never moves." I say to him. "Its fine for a little while. You can drink from it and it'll sustain you. But if it sits too long it goes bad. It grows stale. It becomes toxic." I shake my head. "I need waves. I need waterfalls. I want rushing currents.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“The love of a bone dog, she thought, bending her head down over the paw again. All that I am worth these days.

Then again, few humans were truly worth the love of a living dog. Some gifts you could never deserve.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Lots of people deserve to die,” said the dust-wife finally. “Not everybody deserves to be a killer.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“ Nothing is fair, except that we try to make it so. That’s the point of humans, maybe, to fix the things the gods haven’t managed.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“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

“They are not terrible. They are just the truth.”
― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn