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    Chloe Gong
    “Astra inclinant,” he would whisper into the wind, so heartachingly sincere even when quoting in Latin, “sed non obligant.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
    tags: aslan, inspirational, lion
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    Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
    “Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
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    Marissa Meyer
    “I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
    tags: cinder, cyborg, girl, humor, marissa-meyer
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    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: fate, love, we-make-our-own-paths
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    Chloe Gong
    “Her feminine beauty was a concept as fleeting as power. If she acquired a tan, put on some weight, and let a few decades pass, the street artists would not be rendering her face to sell their creams anymore. Chinese and Western standards alike were arbitrary, pitiful things. But Juliette still needed to keep herself in line, force herself to follow them if people were to look up to her.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Winter
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
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    Marissa Meyer
    “All right, Miss Cryptic. What's the new plan, then?"
    Glancing around the room, Cinder tipped up her chin. "It starts with kidnapping the groom."
    Iko's hand shot into the air.
    "Yes, Iko?"
    "That is the best idea ever. Count me in.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: cinder, cress, iko, lunar-chronicles, marissa-meyer
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Maybe the princess could save herself."
    "That sounds like a pretty good story too.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Fairest
    tags: cinder, fairest, feminist, levana, princess, queen-levana, the-lunar-chronicles
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    C.S. Lewis
    “But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: arrow, heart, inej, romance, suli-poverb
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    Chloe Gong
    “You destroy me and then you kiss me. You give me a reason to hat you and then you give me a reason to love you. Is this a lie or the truth? Is the a ploy or your heart reaching for me?”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
    tags: love, roma-juliette, romance
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    Chloe Gong
    “The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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    Chloe Gong
    “You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
    tags: juliette-cai, these-violent-delights
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    Chloe Gong
    “Entitlement that encouraged their wives to place a delicate handkerchief to their nose and sniff, wholeheartedly believing the tirade was deserved. They believed themselves the rulers of the world—on stolen land in America, on stolen land in Shanghai. Everywhere they went—entitlement. And Juliette was so tired.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
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    Chloe Gong
    “Don’t you dare,” Roma said. “Don’t you dare fall apart now, dorogaya.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
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    Chloe Gong
    “Sometimes it was hard for Kathleen to remember that she was still her own person, not just shards of a mirror, reflecting back a thousand different personalities most fitting for the situation.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
    tags: reflection
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    Alexandra Christo
    “Any human who takes a siren's heart will be immune to the power of their song. Only Elian didn't need to take my heart; I gave it to him.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
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    Alexandra Christo
    “It’s a key part of my image: never upset or angry or deterred. Always in charge of my own life and destiny.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
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    Alexandra Christo
    “Everything is a game to him. Loyalty is mockery and devotion is kinship in place of fear. He is a riddle, disguised as a ruler, able to laugh at the idea of disloyalty as though it would never be an option. I can't fathom such a thing.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
    tags: elian, lira, opposites
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  • #24
    “Aaron Warner Anderson, chief commander and regent of Sector 45, son of the supreme commander of The Reestablishment.

    He has a soft spot for fashion.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
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    “I like the way I feel about myself when I'm with him." I say quietly. "Warner thinks I'm strong and smart and capable and he actually values my opinion. He makes me feel like his equal--like I can accomplish just as much as he can, and more. And if I do something incredible, he's not even surprised. He expects it. He doesn't treat me like I'm some fragile little girl who needs to be protected all the time.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
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  • #26
    “I am going to MURDER YOU—”
    “No,” he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. “Bad Juliette. You don’t like to kill people, remember? You’re against that, remember? You like to talk about feelings and rainbows—”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
    tags: ignite-me, juliette-ferrars, kenji-kishimoto
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  • #27
    John Green
    “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: memories
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  • #28
    “And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
    tags: aaron-warner, assumptions, ignite-me, warner
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  • #29
    “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
    tags: aaron-warner-anderson
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  • #30
    “For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind.

    But finally, finally, I have learned to break free.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
    tags: doubt, insperational, juliette-ferrars
    502 likes



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