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“And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold. And as soon as I felt it, I realized it had been there inside me for a long while, crystallizing, like a pond slowly freezing solid over a long winter night.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I bet you have a nice smile,” he says.

“Do you know how many people have died trying that?” I ask him.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Unnatural Creatures

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The thing about freedom - it doesn’t come naturally. Almost no one has it handed to them. I’m feee because I fought for it.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows