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  • #1
    Madeline Miller
    “Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #2
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
    "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
    "Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
    "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
    "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #3
    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #4
    “Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

  • #5
    Lauren Asher
    “To the girls who dream of meeting a prince
    but end up falling for the misunderstood villain.”
    Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

  • #6
    Ali Hazelwood
    “I should start dating again. Should I start dating again? Yeah. I should. Except that . . . men. No, thank you.”
    Ali Hazelwood, Under One Roof

  • #7
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #8
    Ali Hazelwood
    “I love you, I think. And I suspect that you love me, too. And I cannot wait for us to admit it to each other. I cannot wait to see what happens next.”
    Ali Hazelwood, Under One Roof

  • #9
    Ali Hazelwood
    “Please don’t build an atomic bomb.” “Don’t tell me what to do.” He sighs. “I’ll make room for the plutonium in the cheese drawer.”
    Ali Hazelwood, Under One Roof

  • #10
    Ali Hazelwood
    “who uses black towels, anyway? Who produces them? Where does he even buy them, Bloodbath and Beyond?”
    Ali Hazelwood, Under One Roof

  • #11
    “I know I'm petty and I don't care.

    - Kenji”
    Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

  • #12
    Ali Hazelwood
    “He doesn’t really acknowledge my existence. Well, except to occasionally stare like I’m some roach infesting his pristine living space.”
    Ali Hazelwood, Under One Roof

  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #16
    Madeline Miller
    “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

  • #17
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #18
    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #19
    Madeline Miller
    “It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #20
    Madeline Miller
    “I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #21
    Madeline Miller
    “You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #22
    Madeline Miller
    “So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

    “You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”

    “I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #23
    Madeline Miller
    “You are wise,” he said.

    “If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #24
    Madeline Miller
    “A golden cage is still a cage.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #25
    Madeline Miller
    “I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #26
    Madeline Miller
    “You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #27
    Priya Ardis
    “Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
    He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
    Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

  • #28
    Madeline Miller
    “But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #29
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

  • #30
    Priya Ardis
    “Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”
    Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
    Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening



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