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“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“To those like the misguided; look at the story of Man, and come to your senses! It
is not the destination, but the trip that matters. What you do today influences tomorrow, not the other way around. Love Today, and seize All Tomorrows!”
― Nemo Ramjet, All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

“In the matter of prejudice...we are all the same. Goddess and demon, human and monster: none of us understand difference, but at least some of us make the effort to try.”
― Liz Williams, Snake Agent

“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

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

“How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
― Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

“I hated being twelve. Back in '65, I just wanted to grow up fast so everything would finally be good, you know? But truth is, life was actually way better back then. Turns out, the older you get... the more everything just turns to shit.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Paper Girls, Volume 1

“But there were some wounds you could ask an old soldier about and others you had to wait for him to tell.”
― Brian McClellan, Sins of Empire

“It is one of the universe's deepest and cruelest jokes that it takes a lifetime to learn the lessons you need in order to live.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs