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“Sometimes the most important things in our lives are the things we can't see."
"like what?" I whispered through my tears
"Like kindness and joy and faith and love. What would we do without those things? Where would we be? They give life meaning.”
― Jessilyn Stewart Peaslee, Ella

“I never cared too much about my appearance, but I certainly didn't want to look like someone who never cared.”
― Jessilyn Stewart Peaslee, Ella

“But your mother used to have a saying: "Pretty is pretty for a little while, but true beauty is beautiful forever."
Ella pursed her lips. "How do you know if you're pretty or if you're beautiful?"
"I'll give you a hint." He reaches out to playfully touch the tip of her nose. "You can't see beauty in a mirror.”
― Jessilyn Stewart Peaslee, Ella

“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
But now I knew that every mad word was true.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“All my life, I've thought myself weaker than others. But everyone has to work at being brave, don't they? Day after day, in their own way.”
― Julie C. Dao, Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix

“Bravery isn't just about being strong and handy with a sword. Sometimes it's about resolve...or deciding whether to face a past you'd rather forgot.”
― Julie C. Dao, Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix

“She was thought too gentle to rule, but perhaps they were all wrong,” Fu said. “Perhaps gentleness is necessary to temper a ruler’s ruthlessness, and not weakness at all.”
― Julie C. Dao, Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix

“No. You surpass us all." Beside me she looked colorless and frail. "You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Are you in love with me?" I blurted out.
A terrible silence followed. Rook didn't turn around.
"Please say something."
He rounded on me. "Is that so terrible? You say it as though it's the most awful thing you can imagine. It isn't as though I've done it on purpose. Somehow I've even grown fond of your - your irritating questions, and your short legs, and your accidental attempts to kill me."
I recoiled. "That's the worst declaration of love I've ever heard!”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Frankly, I had no idea how anyone knew if they were in love in the first place. Was there ever a single thread a person could pick out from the knot and say “Yes—I am in love—here’s the proof!” or was it always caught up in a wretched tangle of ifs and buts and maybes?”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“And we wouldn't live happily ever after, because I don't believe in such nonsense, but we both had a long, bold adventure ahead of us, and a great deal to look forward to at last.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“He was astonishingly vain even by fair folk standards, which was like saying a pond is unusually wet, or a bear surprisingly hairy.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“your biggest mistake was believing that things must be broken before they can be fixed" page 335”
― Emma Theriault, Rebel Rose

“I felt like I was shining, and this time I thought maybe it wasn’t just the moon. Maybe the light was in me.”
― Dusti Bowling, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

“I love you, too," she said.

Nathaniel's brow furrowed. He turned his face to the side and blinks several times.

"Thank God," he said finally. "I don't think unrequited love would have suited me. I might have started writing poetry.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“God, Elisabeth, I've been doomed since the moment I watched you smack a fiend off my carriage with a crowbar. How could you not tell? Silas has been rolling his eyes at me for weeks.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Why are you looking at me like that?" he inquired.

"You used a demonic incantation to pack my stockings!"

He raised an eyebrow. "You're right, that doesn't sound like something a proper evil sorcerer would do. Next time, I won't fold them.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“I'm ruining your reputation, aren't I?" she asked, watching the spectacle unfold.

"Don't worry," Nathaniel said. "I've been hard at work trying to ruin my reputation for years. Perhaps after this, influential families will stop trying to catapult their unwed daughters over my garden fence. Which actually did happen once. I had to fend her off with a trowel.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Perhaps I haven't seen what you can do," she said. "But I've seen what you choose to do." She looked up. "Isn't that more important?”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Tempting as the prospect is," Nathaniel said, "we are not attempting world domination. It sounds fun in theory, but in reality it's a logistical nightmare. All those assassinations and so forth."

At her blank look, he explained, "Silas used to tell me bedtime stories.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“I thought you didn't know how to drive a carriage," she shouted over the pounding of hooves.
“Nonsense,” Nathaniel shouted back. “I’m a fast learner when properly motivated.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“It's an honor to fight by your side, Elisabeth, for however long it lasts. You've reminded me to live. That's worth having something to lose.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Was that what it meant to lose someone? The pain never went away. It just got... covered up.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Life is like the oil within a lamp. It can be measured, but the pace at which it burns depends on how the dial is turned day by day, how bright and fierce the flame. And there is no predicting whether the lamp might be knocked to the ground and shatter, when it could have blazed on a great while longer. Such is the unpredictability of life.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Some days, the memories hung over her like a weight. Each was light enough to bear on its own, but combined, they could make it difficult to even walk up the stairs. And yet, she wouldn't trade them away for anything. Their existence made this house, this life, a place she had fought for and won. A place where she belonged.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Not all battles are fought with swords”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“It seemed that it was the rest of the world that had gone mad, not her—but if she was the only one who thought so, could she truly call herself sane?”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“And that made the world no less worth fighting for, because wherever there was darkness, there was also so much light.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns