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"Hey authors, if you’re gonna comp your book to Mean Girls, then like . . . you’ve gotta let your protagonists be actually mean
It’s otherwise a cute and fluffy book, but rn I don’t really think it deserves the comp" — Jan 20, 2026 07:20PM
"Hey authors, if you’re gonna comp your book to Mean Girls, then like . . . you’ve gotta let your protagonists be actually mean
It’s otherwise a cute and fluffy book, but rn I don’t really think it deserves the comp" — Jan 20, 2026 07:20PM
“Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it--the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot—I took you to this killing field as my slave—you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
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