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“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness.
Her raven boys.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“If anyone were to claim greater happiness in their careers than I do in poking about sunlit wildwoods for faerie footprints, I should not believe it.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“I wish to know the unknowable. To see what no mortal has seen. To peel back the carpeting of the world and tumble into the stars.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“I was delighted to sit in the corner with my food and a book and speak to no one.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Assassins are a monstrous breed. Either they attack when you are at your worst, or they are having a go at you on your birthday. I have never known a more dishonourable profession.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“As far as she was concerned, family had nothing to do with proximity or blood. Family was a chosen thing. A label earned.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Power is an illusion. Power exists because we believe it does. Kings and Queens—and yes, Princes—have power because we grant it to them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“They trained her for war. And she rose up to wage it on them.”
― Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings

“Calla Tuoleimi, princess of Er. She could do nothing on a throne, but she can do everything with a sword in her hand.”
― Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings

“What kind of life was it, to sit dumbly in the dark, in living fear of death? Better to go out and face it, head-on.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Hollow Boy

“People always say that your wedding day is the happiest day of your life, but honestly, people should try solving murders more often.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“Destiny, Vera thinks, is something to be hunted down and grabbed tightly with both hands and shaken until it gives her exactly what she wants.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Dummies, every single one of us. The gifted ones most of all.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“It’s safer to be angry than sad. Anger is a weapon. Sadness is a tomb.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“Life begins without our choice and ends the same way, a straight line of birth, breath, death. It’s us, our ideas and hopes and dreams and needs, that make the way difficult.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“I hate that place and its sorrys. Sorry has never fixed anything. It just bares the wound; it doesn’t bind it.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“He wanted to tell her she'd have more room if she'd just get rid of her books, but he supposed that in her case, it would be like telling a mother she'd have more room if she threw out her children.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane

“She delighted in the smell of the ink, the rough feel of the paper between her fingers, the rustle of sweet pages, the shapes of letters before her eyes.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane

“I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn't exist.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“Humans were so circular; they lived the same slow cycles of joy and misery over and over, never learning. Every lesson in the universe had to be taught billions of times, and it never stuck.

Maybe it was good that the world forgot every lesson, every good and bad memory, every triumph and failure, all of it dying with each generation. Perhaps this cultural amnesia spared them all. Perhaps if they remembered everything, hope would die instead.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“Desire and dread lay right next to each other in his heart, each sharpening the other.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends