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“Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“There is a difference between understanding and forgiveness. It’s possible to have one without the other.”
― Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart

“Marra no longer had much faith in fate. She had been born a princess, which should have been lucky, but the price for never going hungry was to be caught in a struggle between people too powerful to call to justice.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“We must each be where we belong.” “What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“Once, carefully, they rode around a company of marching pike men, recruits on their way to being exported to other lords’ wars. Like Drovo, Pen thought. He wondered how many would ever march home. Better it seemed to export cheese or cloth, but it was true that fortunes were made in the military trade. Though seldom by the soldiers, any more than by the cheeses.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Demon

“The moon peeped in our windows, but she was pretty good at keeping secrets.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect

“If a woman receives only cruelty or indifference from her husband, father, brother, or son, why should she trust her well-being to any of them?”
― Susan C. Wilson, Clytemnestra's Bind

“A peal of mirth almost escaped me at the notion of shaming the blood-soaked House of Atreus, as if it had even been clean.”
― Susan C. Wilson, Clytemnestra's Bind

“Kavi fought without armour or shield, with stolen bone and muscle forged in a lifetime of backbreaking labour, and with a hold on her reality that was absolute.”
― Aman J. Bedi, Kavithri

“Be brave. You have everything you need,” I murmured to no one in particular. “Everything indeed.” Excelsior!”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Sinister Revenge

“Whoever decided that women were bad luck at sea clearly never sailed with you.”
― Kell Woods, Upon a Starlit Tide

“To bear witness to the fury of the sea, to have your life held entirely in its hands—to live or die depending on its whim—must be terrifying, indeed.”
― Kell Woods, Upon a Starlit Tide