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“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Is it such a shameful thing, he thought, to be the man who likes to provide information for others, rather than be the one who has to use that information?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House