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“When a government ceases to protect its people, it becomes necessary to overthrow it.”
― Rosaria Munda, Furysong

“Some of the bravest women in our lives have been peasant women, Annie. They’re why we’re here. Even if they go unsung.”
― Rosaria Munda, Furysong

“Sing me now your fury-song.”
― Rosaria Munda, Furysong

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Which are you, the monster or the man?”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“One doesn’t need magic if one knows enough stories.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“We are all of us Revolutionaries.”
― Rosaria Munda, Flamefall

“But keeping power is so much more difficult than gaining it. You have to make sacrifices. You keep sacrificing until you realize the thing you've sacrificed is yourself.”
― Rosaria Munda, Flamefall

“Tonight I'm full of confidence, like a dragon riding a gale. I am done letting these tendrils of shame tie me to the ground. No shadow is so great that it doesn't shrink when viewed from the air.”
― Rosaria Munda, Flamefall

“The best parts of myself, I found with Annie.”
― Rosaria Munda, Flamefall

“Clay Cooper had seen a dragon roused in anger. He'd faced down a legion of shrieking grimlocks and matched gazes with the cold fury of undead kings. Despite all this, asking Ginny to marry him had been the most harrowing moment of his life.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“Something about the aura of future monstrously dark sorceress must put them off.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“Dragging myself from bed seemed easier when I was doing it for someone else.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Knowledge can only be wielded by those who dive into its depths and know the shape of it. Reading without true understanding is only wading in the shallows without a care for the monsters that lurk beneath.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I am hardened by the suffering of others. Another lie I told myself because I couldn't save everyone.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“If a man could die of stress, I’d have died several hundred times over in the past few days.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I was now the only keeper of these memories, and that was the truest sort of loneliness”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Fanatics were all alike, cut from the same cloth and dyed different colors.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I would drink a thousand lies just to see your face again.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“It’s hard to remake one’s view of the world, to admit to complacency. I thought remaking myself for you was hard enough, but doing that was something I wanted. I didn’t want to realize how much I’ve hurt the people around me, and that’s what confronting my beliefs meant. We all tell ourselves stories of who we are, and in my mind, I was always the hero. But I wasn’t. Not in all the ways I should have been.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don’t think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they’re all busy worrying what people think about them. I thought that I’d listened to her, but it turned out I hadn’t. Privately I’d believed, on some deep level, that everyone was in fact thinking about me all the time, evaluating me, et cetera, when really they hadn’t been giving me much of a thought at all.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate