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“No one should have to sit and suffer and pretend to be someone they’re not because it’s easier, or because no one wants to help them fix it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks.
"Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do."
"What way might that be?"
"As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me."
" I am not afraid of you," Marco says.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“No hugging,” I warned her. It was in our contract.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“I try to avoid asking humans if there’s anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don’t care.)”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I’m a pessimist.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“I'm not crying. My eyes are sweating.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“Impossibly, ridiculously, Carter whispered through a mouthful of blood, 'Oh shit. I think I'm bisexual.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“It was warm like a summer day. It was candy canes and pinecones, it was epic and awesome, it was dirt and leaves and rain, it was grass and lake water and sunshine.

It was a forest so alive, so untouched.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“So the plan wasn't a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“I really needed to get around to setting that one-second delay on my mouth.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?"

"You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study

“I felt HostileSecUnit1 go into shutdown mode. It wasn’t dead, it was just catastrophically damaged. (I know, who isn’t?)”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

“Bells of truth ring like cries in the night,” he called out. “If only the world would listen.”
― J.A. Andrews, Dragon's Reach

“He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We never discuss politics unless we're at least half-drunk, Lord Kalen. That's how we maintain our sanity.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love. Now all I can give you is a chance.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“The world doesn't stop spinning because you're sad, and that's good; if it did, people would go around breaking hearts like they were sheets of maple sugar, just to keep the world exactly where it is. They'd make it out like it was a good thing, a few crying children in exchange for a peace that never falters or fades. We can be sad and we can be hurt and we can even be killed, but the world keeps turning, and the things we're supposed to do keep needing to be done.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“He kept running. Sometimes, after all, that's what must be said to make a hero: the willingness to keep running even after it becomes clear that the entire exercise is doomed to failure. Sometimes heroism is pressing on when the ending is already preordained.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“I know, I know, panic is fun, but sometimes revenge is better," she said. "Choose revenge. Choose better. I brought you gloves.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“Heroism is addictive. Maybe that's why it sounds so much like heroin. [Sumi Ohashi]”
― Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go

“If they are being locked, they are being locked. We don't have a key."
"Sometimes, you don't need a key", said Sumi. Her smile verged on feral. "Sometimes, a crowbar is good enough.”
― Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go

“She still didn't believe in destiny. Clay shaped into a cup was not always destined to become a drinking vessel; it was simply shaped by someone too large to be resisted.”
― Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields

“Clay shaped into a cup was not always destined to become a drinking vessel; it was simply shaped by someone too large to be resisted. She was not clay, but she had been shaped by her circumstances all the same, not directed by any destiny”
― Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields