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

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“this whole godsforsaken city could burn to the ground for all I cared, because that was what it deserved for the way it took everything good, everything right in the world, and destroyed it.”
― A.N. Horton, The Third Ring

“We starve. And then your priests come down twice a year to tell us how lucky we are, how grateful we should be, that not a single one of us or our ancestors has made it through enough of the Trials to be elevated, that our brothers and sisters are stolen from us and sent on to some undisclosed fate we’ll never know, that we can serve the Geist with our sacrifices, with our pain, with our hunger.”
― A.N. Horton, The Third Ring

“Because it’s easier to blind people with faith than to guide them to the truth and the beauty it beholds.”
― A.N. Horton, The Third Ring

“She may never be the best, but that could be forgiven as long as she didn’t stop.”
― Cait Jacobs, The Princess Knight

“Your resolve, your strength, your loyalty. Sometimes I feel as if you could will the stars into the sky. I like to think you would have found a different route to get here. I’m only glad I was blessed to witness the creation of a goddess.”
― Cait Jacobs, The Princess Knight

“I won’t be defined by the pain. I won’t let it hold me back, not when I’m needed— when I can make a difference.”
― Cait Jacobs

“Power in bravery.”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke

“It’s not magic when I have it. It takes you to make it into something.”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke

“You are a vision, even with blood clots in your hair. But I don’t know if all would share my depraved tastes.”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke

“Take my freedom, Grey. Everything I have is yours. Everything I am is yours. Take my freedom, and keep your power, and keep my life. If you are here, I want to live. Even if it requires haunting this godforsaken rock for the rest of my life, never being more than an hour’s walk from you at any time – because, honestly, that’s how we would be anyways.”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke

“But being afraid is better than being hopeless.”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke