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“Why do you only paint what other people have already painted? Declan Lynch had asked. Because her brush had already come pre-loaded with someone else's palette.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“tamquam alter idem”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“If you swapped out all my Jessicas for Johns, do you know what you'd get? Fiction. Just fiction. Ready and willing to be read by anyone, but somehow by being a woman who writes about women, I've eliminated half the Earth's population from my potential readers, and you know what? I don't feel ashamed of that. I feel pissed.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“You are made of dreams and this world is not for you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk