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#1

“You could die," she whispered. "Everything dies," he whispered back. "I'm afraid of so much more than dying.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

tags: die, fear

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#2

“We are alike,” he said, “as no one else is, as no one else will ever be.”

The truth of it rang through me. Like calls to like.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

tags: alina-starkov, darling

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#3

“He tapped the sun over his heart. "I came here for you. You're my flag. You're my nation.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

tags: mal

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#4

“I can’t decide if you’re a fearmonger or a coward.”
“And I can’t decide if you’re an idiot or an idiot.”
― leigh bardugo, Siege and Storm

tags: idiot, nikolai-lantsov

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#5

“So many men had tried to make her a queen. Now she understood that she was meant for something more. The Darkling had told her he was destined to rule. He had claimed his throne, and a part of her too. He was welcome to it. For the living and the dead, she would make herself a reckoning. She would rise.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

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#6

“Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.

Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.

“Then I’d be alone, too," he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

tags: siege-and-storm

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#7

“Aleksander," I whispered. A boy's name, given up. Almost forgotten.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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#8

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: ruin-and-rising, teaser

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#9

“In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: aleksander-morozova, the-darkling

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#10

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: alina-starkov

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#11

“It’s true,” I said softly. “You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience.” I leaned forward and whispered, my lips brushing the shell of his ear. “But I am an apt pupil.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: alina-starkov, darkling

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#12

“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: hope, leigh-bardugo, ruin-and-rising

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#13

“We all die. Not everyone dies for a reason.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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#14

“Baghra," Nikolai said, "how are you this evening?"
"Still old and blind," she snarled.
"And charming," Nikolai drawled. "Never forget charming."
"Whelp."
"Hag."
"What do you want, pest?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: baghra, nikolai

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#15

“Tell me, Alina, has he claimed you yet?"

"Claimed me? Like a peninsula?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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#16

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: cardan, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince

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#17

“That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: hunger, need, want

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#18

“But kissing Locke never felt the way that kissing Cardan does, like taking a dare to run over knives, like an adrenaline strike of lightning, like the moment when you've swum too far out in the sea and there is no going back, only cold black water closing over your head.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: cardan, holly-black, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince

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#19

“I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: the-cruel-prince

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#20

“She pulls me closer to her, her fingers held tight over mine, and together we dive.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

tags: elian, lira

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#21

“How strange that instead of taking his heart, I'm hoping he takes mine.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

tags: elian, lira

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#22

“I let it all fall away. My mission, my kingdom. The world. They exist somewhere other than in this moment, and now there is only this. Me, my ship, and a girl with oceans in her eyes.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

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#23

“His hand moves from beside mine, and I feel a sudden absence. And then it's on my cheek, cupping my face, thumb stroking my lip. It feels like the worst thing I've ever done and the best thing I could ever do and how strange that the two are suddenly the same.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

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#24

“You’ve got good reflexes,” she says, and smiles in a way that detonates through me. I tighten my grip on her. “You don’t.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

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#25

“For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.” I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?” He grins up at me. “They missed.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

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#26

“Each of you will have a chance to play it, and whosoever plays most sweetly, you will have it. For art is more than virtue or vice.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

tags: art, vice, virtue

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#27

“You can call me Alexia. I like it when you say it.”
― Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story

tags: alexia, vronsky

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#28

“You’ll soon find that doing the right thing is rarely the easy choice. But I promise you’ll sleep better at night because of it.”
― Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story

tags: anna-k, edward

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#29

“Because just like you need to be where I am, I need to be where you are.”
― Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story

tags: anna, anna-k

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#30

“Always the most beautiful girl in the room," Kimmie said. "No wonder everyone hates you.”
― Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story

tags: anna-k, kimmie

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