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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You've been attacked, violated, tormented, left on the streets to starve. The odds you face are impossible. If you continue down this path, you'll die. Why won't you just give up?”
She stared. Was that a thing people did - just gave up? When there was so much in the world to love, to fight for? “I cannot,” she said fiercely. “I never will.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“It always takes more energy to join and build than to destroy, my dear.”
― Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

“It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“The goddess of dreams, she thought, if there were such a person, would wear gossamer and moonlight. No sooner did she think it than she was it. Her skin let off a subtle glow. Her dress floated like evaporating mist, and a corona of stars and fireflies perched on her red-brown hair.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“Just because the power is mine, it doesn’t follow that all the choices are.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów

“Your tattoo,” I said without thinking. “Does it mean anything?”

“Don't most tattoos?” he said. “I kind of want something to have significance if it's in permanent ink. On my skin.”

“What does it mean?”

“It's a warning,” he said.

Right.

“Do you have others?” I couldn't see any, despite his short sleeves. “I mean, under your clothes?”
What was wrong with me? Was it inappropriate hour or something?

“One more.” He was trying not to smile. “But I need to know you a little better first.”
― Mary Watson, The Wren Hunt

“I suppose we are all heroes in our own eyes, and monsters in the eyes of those who are different.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Inside the house, violin music, richer than the darkest chocolate, started playing. It seeped outside and whispered to Scarlett as Julian's smile turned seductive, all shameless curves and immoral promises. An invitation to places proper young ladies didn't think about, let alone visit. Scarlett didn't want to imagine what sorts of things this smile had convinced other girls to do.

“Don't look at me like that,” Scarlett said. “It doesn't work on me.”

“That's why it's so fun.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Yes, her father had always treated her like a possession, but she was not a thing to be bought or sold.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Think whatever you want, but if you honestly believe that's the only reason I'm here with my hands all over you, you're not nearly as clever as I thought.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“She tried to smile then. She was finally the hero. All it had cost her was everything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I'm sorry, Crimson. I lied when I said I left for five weeks to give you space. I left because I was angry you wanted to meet the count, and I thought leaving would make you want me more.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“How long was I out?” she asked.

“Long enough to make me worry that this wasn't just an elaborate ploy to get into my bed.”

Scarlett managed to smile. “What if I said it was a ploy?”

“I'd tell you that you don't need one. You're welcome in my bed anytime.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“Everything always seems sweeter in the minutes before darkness descends.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“It's not until you're broken that you find your sharpest edge”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“Monster. And yet... For her friends, for her family, she would gladly be a monster. For Rowan, for Dorian, for Nehemia, she would debase and degrade and ruin herself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Maybe some lies, maybe most of them, were lies we only told ourselves.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“What a world this would be, were it not held wholly and solely in the grip of stubborn old men.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“It matters not what you hold faith in. But you must hold faith in something.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“How many hearts have been made complete by words so small as I do? How many more have been shattered with a breath as tiny as It’s over? Little sounds that reshape or unmake your entire world, like great spells of old to redraw the very lines by which you see yourself and all else about you. Two little words.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“I wish you could see yourself the way I see you”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I know it’s scary, being vulnerable, but you can allow yourself to care. You can want to be with people as more than just friends or casual acquaintances.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“She smelled like sun and the drying herbs that hung in the tea shop. She felt like home.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting