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“In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don't like me, and I can pretend that I don't care. But for tonight, let me pretend you're mine.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Books are not meant to remain in your mind, but in your heart. Maybe they exist in your mind too, but as something more than memories. At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision. Personally, I feel like the books I've read led me to make the choices I've made in life. While I may not remember all the details, the stories continue to exert a quiet influence on me.”
― Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Their existence reminds me that despite everything I went through, there is still hope in this world. I keep them because, no matter what, dreams should never be forgotten. No matter how unapproachable the path might seem, every dream is accomplishable as long as they are believed in. We should never forget that. After all, dreams are what anchor us to our happiness.”
― Marie Lau, Symphony of the Fallen Stars: A Hades & Persephone Retelling

“Most strong things are rigid. If you are water, you can shift to fit any mold and freeze yourself strong. You can be strong in any shape. You can be anything.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“Why don’t you try taking responsibility for the things you can control instead of the things you can’t?”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“You learn over time that the world isn’t broken. It’s just… got more pieces to it than you thought. They all fit together, just maybe not the way you pictured when you were young.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“You can learn a great deal listening to people with different experiences from your own. A jaseli once told me, listening never made any man dumber, but it’s made a lot of people smarter.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard. I wonder what you could have turned into without the war”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I have warned you. If something happens to you, I will personally raze the entire Order. That isn't a threat. That is a promise. Consider your survival as much a necessity to the survival of the Resistance as Potter's. If you die, I will kill every last one of them.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I always have to choose, and I never get to choose you. I'm tired of not getting to choose you”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“If he's a monster, then I'm his creator. What did you think was the source of all his rage?”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“For those who live their nightmares so that others may have their dreams.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.

So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why. I found that arrogant and infuriating, not to mention a pain in the neck. Sometimes I even wanted to hit them with a shovel to shut them up, like I did that time in elementary school. But I recalled how upset my sister had been when I’d casually mentioned this to her before and kept my mouth shut.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“This society hasn't changed one bit. People who don't fit into the village are expelled: men who don't hunt, women who don't give birth to children. For all we talk about modern society and individualism, anyone who doesn't try to fit in can expect to be meddled with, coerced, and ultimately banished from the village.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“But she also didn’t want to make it stop. The anger was a shield. The anger helped her to keep from remembering what she’d done. Because as long as she was angry, then it was okay—she’d acted within reason. She was afraid that if she stopped being angry, she might crack apart.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“I mean, if that ship were a person, I would fuck that ship,” said Baji.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“It’s not about who you are, it’s about how they see you. And once you’re mud in this country, you’re always mud.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“That is the tragedy of women, isn’t it? We deny ourselves beauty for the sake of misleading men.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

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

“I’ve read it before, but as I get older, I find comfort in rereading favorites. It’s like spending time with old friends.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Life is like a train that just keeps getting faster and faster and the sooner you realize that the better.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“The best place to enjoy a stormy night is in a warm room with a book in your lap,”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“This is the Book of Doors. Hold it in your hand, and any door is every door.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“I tell you what, I can't help coming here to-morrow, I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I look upon such moments as this now, as so rare, that I cannot help going over such moments again in my dreams. I shall be dreaming of you all night, a whole week, a whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White nights