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“...You know something, don't you?"
"I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific."
"Just answer the question."
"True/false or multiple choice?”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“What’s the worst that could happen?” “You’re so young,” he said softly. “You have no idea.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“I want better choices."
"Then we must make a world that has them.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“Once there was a girl who was too sure of herself. Not everyone would call her beautiful, but they admitted that she had a certain grace that intimidated more often than it charmed. She was not, society agreed, someone you wanted to cross. She keeps her heart in a porcelain box, people whispered, and they were right.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“In the end she was here and he was free. She had done every thing she could. And he didn't even know.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“.. it occured to him that he might have to grow comfortable with happiness, because it might not abandon him this time.”
― Marie Rutkoski

“After ten years of slavery, Arin knew obedience in its many forms. The fear of pain, the gritty promise to oneself of vengeance. Hopelessness. A grinding monotony broken just often enough by the strap or fist.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“The general's daughter? We'd be fools not to. You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“A window is just a window. Colored glass: mere glass. But in the sun it becomes more. She would show him, and say, love should do this.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“I promise, Marianne Daventry," he began.
"I promise that I do not love you for your money”
― Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke

“I could be myself and be loved deeply.”
― Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke

“The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Come to me, and I will try to love you. I will try to love you, if you but come back.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“You are kind,” she said softly. “I am not kind,” Kjell scoffed. “And you are good,” she added. “I am not good!” he laughed. “I have never known a man like you.” “You were a slave in Quondoon! The men you knew were not trying to impress you.” “Neither are you, Captain. Yet I am still impressed.” “Then you have a lot to learn.” She”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“I saw you,” she whispered, her body quaking and her fingers caressing his face. Kjell leaned in, filling his hands with her hair and his mouth with her kiss. “I saw you,” he said against her lips. “And I never looked away.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“I have been hated before. But I don’t know if I’ve been loved. I think . . . once . . . I must have been, because I know how to love.” “Do”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Come to me, and I will try to heal you. I will try to heal you, if you but come back,” Sasha sang softly, the melody sweet, the lyrics heartfelt, and it fell from her lips in a husky plea. “Come to me, and I will give you shelter, I will give you shelter, if you but come back,” he added, picking up where she left off. His lips brushed the lobe of her ear, and he felt the shudder that swept from the crown of her head to the tips of her toes. Her heart galloped, her skin grew damp beneath his, and he continued to chant, making the promise all over again. “Come to me, and I will try to love you. I will try to love you, if you but come back.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“She mothered them. She mothered him.

He hated it and loved it. He wished her quiet and prayed she would never stop talking. She made him both jubilant and miserable, and he found himself waiting with irritation and anticipation each night for the moment the men gathered and looked at her with pleading eyes and she acquiesced, telling them stories like they were children around her knees.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until after dinner”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else. And if you choose the dream, if you keep on going, then you can never quit, because it's all you are.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“People are our safe places. I have one: a person who’s a home and a world to me.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“I would have chosen you, if they had let me choose.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“He had, in his hearts, declared war on the dark child, but Lazlo was no warrior, and his hearts had no talent for hate.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“Once upon a time, a sister made a vow she didn't know how to break, and it broke her instead.

Once upon a time, a girl did the impossible, but she did it just a little too late.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“You are so obtuse!" Brontë says, exasperated.
I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“It's amazing how people can surprise you.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser