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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
― Lemony Snicket

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“But he’s the one thing in all the kingdoms that you, and only you, never have to fear.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You’re beautiful when you’re quiet and somber, but when you laugh? You rival the sunrise over the Skotos Mountains.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I lost myself to the freedom of being able to read any book I wanted.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You can’t spell dysfunctional without fun, now can you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“See, I was raised in Hell. You could say I’m socially awkward.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, White Hot Kiss

“He arched a brow at me. “Do you want to be stolen and corrupted?” I had a feeling I was already corrupted just by his mere presence. “Why not.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, White Hot Kiss

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

“So you do make mistakes,” I said without thinking. He paused in the act of pulling on his gloves, and I pressed my lips together nervously. “I didn’t mean—” “Of course I make mistakes,” he said. His mouth curved into a half smile. “Just not often.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina,” he said. “You and I are going to change the world.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I don’t want your prayers,” he said. “What do you want, then?” The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie’s voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Noon tomorrow. Goedmedbridge. With her knives.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there’s a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man who’s ruled by his inner dog? As if all men aren’t anyway, even without the lycanthrope gene.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”
― Sidney Sheldon, Bloodline

“People assumed I behaved strictly on impulse, when actually, it required quite a bit of strategy being this fucked up.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Maybe he was overly confident, purposely reckless, or…uncontrollable. Uncontrollable. That was the boy I remembered.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“don’t be stupid enough to put yourself in his path. He has no heart.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I just never seemed to come out of anything with him unscathed, did I? In body or in mind.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Happy people don’t fear death, because there’s nothing more they want out of life than what they have right now.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“She was everything I wasn’t, yet looked at me—to me—as if we were stitched by the same string.”
― Nicole Fiorina, Hollow Heathens

“My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it'll one day leave. And when that day comes, I won’t care to let that shell go. I carry my body around because I have to, not because it's a choice. But when I possess something meaningful, I’m choosing to hold on to it. Carrying something meaningful in my skin is effortless but holding onto something that I could lose—that takes devotion.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Scruples are a dangerous thing for men like you to have. If I can’t trust your greed, then I can’t trust anything about you. And if I can’t trust you, your life is worthless to me.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Highwayman