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“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“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

“Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“She was a goddess. She was a monster. She‘d nearly destroyed this country. And then she‘d given it one last, gasping chance to live.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Sometimes i think if nobody spoke to me, i'd never speak again.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“She saw it in a flash of utter clarity. She knew what she had to do. The only path, the only way forward. And what a familiar path it was. It was so obvious now. The world was a dream of the gods, and the gods dreamed in sequences, in symmetry, in patterns. History repeated itself, and she was only the latest iteration of the same scene in a tapestry that had been spun long before her birth.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Dr. Eleven: What was it like for you, at the end?
Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“No star burns forever.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“When have we ever believed that the world wasn’t ending?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir

“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
― John Muir

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
― John Muir

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
― John Muir

“Going to the mountains is going home.”
― John Muir

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold