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Victoria Schwab
“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Terry Pratchett
“I know about sureness,' said Didactylos. 'I remember, before I was blind, I went to Omnia once. And in your Citadel I saw a crowd stoning a man to death in a pit. Ever seen that?'
'It has to be done,' Brutha mumbled. 'So the soul can be shriven and-'
'Don't know about the soul. Never been that kind of philosopher,' said Didactylos. 'All I know is, it was a horrible sight.'
'The state of the body is not-'
'Oh, I'm not talking about the poor bugger in the pit,' said the philosopher. 'I'm talking about the people throwing the stones. They were sure all right. They were sure it wasn't them in the pit. You could see it in their faces. So glad it wan't them in the pit that they were throwing just as hard as they could.”
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Madeline Miller
“When he was gone, would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus? I tried to picture myself running up and down the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul.

I could not see it. That knowledge brought its own sort of pain.”
Madeline Miller, Circe

Natasha Ngan
“Because if this is to be my fate, I'm going to walk boldly into it on my own two feet.”
Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

Malinda Lo
“She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”
Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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