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“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

It did not end well.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist.

And a devil knelt over him and smiled.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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

“I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Inside Out

“I felt much better shut up inside my self-made pity cocoon instead of faking happiness in front of the world.”
― Courtney King Walker, On the Fringe

“You’re so naïve.” Felicity laughed scornfully. “Don’t you see what people are? They’re animals. Every one of them.”
“Felicity.” Waverly grabbed hold of the girl’s hand and squeezed hard enough to hurt, until Felicity lifted her eyes to Waverly’s. “We’re animals, too. We can fight back.”
Felicity yanked her hand away. “You idiot. It doesn’t matter how hard you fight.”
“It matters to me,” Waverly said quietly.
“So fight, then,” Felicity spat over her shoulder.
Waverly stood up, fists clenched. “I will.”
― Amy Kathleen Ryan, Glow

“A veces la vida era como una canción. Durante tres minutos, perfecta.”
― Jordi Sierra i Fabra

“Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua

“Debe ser una regla general que los solitarios no simpaticemos ¿O será que sencillamente, somos antipáticos?”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua

“Silencio antes de nacer, silencio después de la muerte, la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.”
― Isabel Allende, Paula

“My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name, soldier boy?”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“Here, I’ll show you how to use it. Let me see your foot.”
“That’s a pretty intimate demand in the angel world. It usually takes dinner, some wine, and sparkling conversation for me to give up my feet.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“A little weird? That was freakin' Bizarroville."
He pauses and looks back at me.
"Are you speaking English?”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“Your sense of judgement could use a dash of common sense.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“‎"Was that your plan all along? Show me where to go, then convince me there's nothing I can do to save my sister?"

"Actually, my plan all along was to become a rockstar, travel the world collecting fan girls, and then getting really fat and spending the rest of my life playing video games while the girls kept comin', thinking I look good as I did in my music videos." He shrugs as if to say, 'who knew the world would turn out so different?”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“Before he turned away, I asked, 'What do you need?'
'I need you. I need to give you a proper kiss. I need you to be my mate.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Inside Out

“For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?”
― Maria V. Snyder, Inside Out

“Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Inside Out

“Sleep? What's that? A new type of casserole?”
― Maria V. Snyder, Outside In

“Knowing and believing are sometimes hard to combine.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Outside In

“I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but it made sense at the time.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Outside In

“With a lightning quick glance at me first, he reads one bumper sticker: “Member: BBB. Boys in Books are Better?”
― Anne Eliot, Almost

“Is this a habit of yours?” he asks.

“What?”

“Dropping stuff whenever you first see me? It's kind of cute. Flattering,” he adds, straightening while easily holding all of my stuff in his giant arms.

I've recovered enough to roll my eyes. “Maybe the habit is connected to your urge to rifle through my private things every time you see me?”

“It's possible. Your stuff is so randomly interesting.” He eyes my science kit and then scans through the pile of papers in his hands. “You got any other lists that need checking off? College tuition aside, I'm also trying to save for a new car.” He laughs.”
― Anne Eliot, Almost

“Sometimes different is not better,”
― Anne Eliot, Almost

“Maybe because he's already been in my dreams for so long, it feels to me as though we've always been together.”
― Anne Eliot, Almost

“Are you completely slow? YES. I'm mental. This is why I have a list called ‘how to be normal”
― Anne Eliot, Almost

“It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.”
― Claudia Gray, Evernight

“I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.”
― Claudia Gray, Evernight

“What had seemed like love was betrayal”
― Claudia Gray, Evernight