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#1

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#2

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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#3

“I've been waiting for you a long time, Alina" He said. "You and I are going to change the world.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

tags: alina, the-darkling

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#4

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

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#5

“Impossible is my specialty.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: heartless, jest, joker, love, wonderland

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#6

“I am a criminal mastermind, I am here to take down this regime.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

tags: cress, lunar-chronicles, thorne

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#7

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

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#8

“If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

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#9

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: clary-fray, fear, hope, jem-carstairs, life, loss, love, memory, shadowhunters, the-infernal-devices

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#10

“Is this what’s going to make you happy?’
‘How different everything could have been, if you had thought to ask me that before.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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#11

“Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: clace, clary-fray, herondale, jace, love, shadowhunters

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#12

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: will-herondale

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#13

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale

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#14

“They’re not hideous,” said Tessa.
Will blinked at her. “What?”
“Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.”
“I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.”
Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?”
“Mauve,” said Will.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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#15

“Tess, Tess, Tessa.

Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it – a heart ringing – but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

Why have I written these words in this book? Because of you. You taught me to love this book where I had scorned it. When I read it for the second time, with an open mind and heart, I felt the most complete despair and envy of Sydney Carton. Yes, Sydney, for even if he had no hope that the woman he loved would love him, at least he could tell her of his love. At least he could do something to prove his passion, even if that thing was to die.

I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.

And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart.

You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.

With hope at least,
Will Herondale”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: cassandra-clare, clockwork-prince, tessa-gray, will-herondale, will-s-letter-to-tessa

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#17

“I love him, but I am only death. I am death to everyone I love. Someday I will be the death of him.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

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#18

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#19

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: description, language, power-of-words, words

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#20

“She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world’s sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

tags: auri

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#20

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: description, language, words

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#21

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books, bookworms, love-for-books

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#22

“I was not scared of anything, when I read my book...”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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#23

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: boys, hate, love

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#24

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― audre lorde

tags: equal-rights, equality, feminism, freedom, liberty, women

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#25

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

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#26

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#27

“She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#28

“Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: cassandra-clare, clockwork-princess, jem-carstairs, page-187, tessa-gray

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#29

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#30

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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