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“The library was also a little temperamental. If you weren’t specific enough in your request or if it couldn’t find books on your desired subject, the shelf would just keep shaking and eventually start to give off heat and emit a high, frantic whine, until you snatched the Albemarle Book and murmured a soothing incantation over its pages while gently caressing its spine.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“What is wrong with you?” Dawes spat as Alex joined her at the nondescript door that led to the temple room, the Bridegroom trailing behind. “I’m a bad dancer and I don’t floss. What’s wrong with you?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Her map had been changed. Her coastline altered. Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I . . . assumed that I'd have to earn this somehow."
"What's there to earn?" Kelsier said, pulling out his own cloak. "This is who you are, Vin.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire