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Nobody's Perfect by Sally Kilpatrick

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“But why couldn’t I have gotten it sooner? Shouldn’t I be old enough to not have to keep learning these lessons?” “Oh, no. That’s not how life works. When we stop learning, we die.”

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“I’ve been nothing but kind to you. I’m not some sort of monster.”
“No, you’re the man who sits idly by, congratulating yourself on your decency, while the monster eats his fill. At least a monster has teeth and a spine.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

tags: doing-nothing, inej-ghafa, monster

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“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: six-of-crows

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“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.

And its snap split the world in two.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

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“We were all here to learn. He was the one who had a problem, not I. Perhaps it was time for fathers to teach their sons how to behave around young women. They were not born superior, no matter how society falsely conditioned them. We were all equals here.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

tags: audrey-rose-wadsworth, equality

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