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  • #1
    Rick Riordan
    “Percy: “You asked Poseidon for… me?”
    Tyson: "For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive."
    Percy: “But that’s so cruel!”
    Tyson: “Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes--"
    Percy: “The scars on your back?”
    Tyson: “Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big Bully. I prayed to Daddy for help. Soon the people at Meriwether found me. Mey you. Biggest blessing ever. Sorry I said Poseidon was mean. He sent me a brother.”
    Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

  • #2
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Say something spiteful.”
    “Why?” she asked faintly.
    “Because I’m fairly certain I'm hallucinating and in my dreams you're much nicer.”
    “You're an idiot, Nikolai.”
    Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

  • #3
    R.F. Kuang
    “Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

  • #4
    M.L. Rio
    “Were you in love with him?'
    'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #5
    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

  • #6
    Madeline Miller
    “I come to say that you may go, and I will help you. But there must be conditions.” Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It is youth’s gift not to feel its debts.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

  • #10
    Holly Black
    “What I want is him back, him standing beside me, him laughing at all this. I would settle for even his worst self, his cruellest trickster self, if only he could be here.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #11
    George R.R. Martin
    “And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy's loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I shold have died with him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons



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