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“I refuse to let the past find me here.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“There was a roar of delight from the forward bench, and then the bearlike figure of Nils Ropehander came lumbering down the deck, bellowing congratulations.
"What's that? The General? Engaged? Well General, here's my hand in congratulations!"
The expression here's my hand turned out to be a loose one. Nils scooped Horace up in a massive bear hug of delight. The hug, unlike the expression, was not a loose one. When he released Horace, the young groom-to-be crumpled, moaning breathlessly, to the deck.”
― John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja