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“He couldn't believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“All shall love me and despair,’ ” I said. She was eyeing me very dubiously. “Galadriel? In Lord of the Rings?”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“Pain doesn’t get easier. You just have to get stronger.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Fear is just a game, Shiori, I reminded myself. You win by playing.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Find the light that makes your lantern shine,” she used to say. “Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Wallace whispered, 'It's easy to let yourself spiral and fall.'
'It is,' Nelson agreed. 'But it's what you do to pull your self out of it that matters most.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“We live and we breathe. We die, and we still feel like breathing. It’s not always the big deaths either. There are little deaths, because that’s what grief is.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Stop worrying about society and playing its game, hoping that you’ll be good enough, Death urged her. there is no such thing as true goodness, there is only perception. So why not try my way of living? I think it would suit you just fine.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“It’s exhausting,” Signa said as she looked down to her lap, “to pretend you are something -someone- you’re not.”
Blythe took her by the hand. “Then do not spend your life exhausted.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“Be wary of those who will let you apologize for who you are.”
― Rachel Griffin, The Nature of Witches

“Common decency, we'd called it back in my hometown, to not murder people in your way. But here in Newham, decency isn't so common, and morals are always for sale.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer

“Sometimes there is no choice between good and bad, only between bad and worse.”
― Jamie Jo Hoang, My Father, the Panda Killer

“But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone’s shit.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“My necromancer and I always liked you...and hey, what’s like except a love that hasn’t been invited indoors?”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“They all agreed that whatever made Nona happy at school made Nona happy at school, but the bottom line remained that she shouldn’t buy anybody drugs.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth