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“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I hope you will choose better ahead. You have always trusted too easily.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But in a solitary life, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Last year, Mr. Blocker said we could find ourselves in our own writing. All I could think was this: Sounds like a good place to get lost. Yeah, I think I might get lost a hundred times, a thousand times, before I find out who I am and where I'm going.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Though really, I'm doing what I always do- yeah, talking to myself. Talking to myself is the only thing I'm good at.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“When you are standing all alone," she whispered, "the people who notice- those are the people who stand by your side. Those are the people who love you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“But the problem was that love was never safe. Love took you to places you had always been afraid to go.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Never do anything to prove to anyone else, or even to prove to yourself, that you're a man, because you are a man.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The end. And the beginning. The beginning of what? For me, a life of trying to figure out who to trust and who not to trust.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Why is it always what they want to hear? They don't care about what we want to hear.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Space greeted him, endless and cold, the blackest of blacks. I want to go home, Merlin thought. But he didn't know where home was. He meant to crystal cave, but that was just a way station on his endless journey. He seemed to understand space in a way that terrified him. Here was endlessness in its purest form.”
― Cory McCarthy, Once & Future

“Why are you being nice to them right now?" Hex asked.
"I'm British!" Merlin cried.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“Merlin pointed his magic straight at her. A sing came to him: he hummed the sprightly tune to that old Camelot musical.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“When you spend your whole life alone, it's incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in. Where being alone looks like a choice.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“The silver sword across the sea became tarnished and shrank until it was gone and only the old moon remained, bloated and dark, sinking into the mist.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“He has his own chambers and sleeps in a pile of hunting dogs." Jordan admitted.
"Aw," Lam said.
"Okay, but," Ari said, "this isn't about Arthur and his adorable dog pile.”
― A.R. Capetta, Sword in the Stars

“He's like me. He wants the truth, even if the truth is challenging.”
― A.R. Capetta, Sword in the Stars

“You'll wake up here in a little while. And you'll go through this doorway to Camelot, and you'll befriend a small boy who needs you. His name is Arthur. And it won't be all bad. No, not all bad at all”
― A.R. Capetta, Sword in the Stars

“Dawn rose and fell like heroes did, a hundred thousand times. Camelot came and went, the valiant strike of a match against an endless dark. Entire civilizations blinked into being and blinked out.”
― A.R. Capetta, Sword in the Stars

“Are you going to kill me? That's what men do. That's what men have always done. They kill and burn and take, and they stuff their ears against the screams, but at the end of the day they want to be remembered as good. So they write stories about their shining deeds and all are made to watch and listen and love them.”
― A.R. Capetta, Sword in the Stars

“What's this?" He pulled out a folder filled with shiny silver discs. "A whole television show with your name on it! Should we put the lights down low and watch?"
Merlin pursed his lips. "Quite fun in places, that one. I do like the dragon. But, well, they had a tendency to make it all seem as if Arthur and Merlin could be love interests, only to pull out at the last possible second.”
― A.R. Capetta, Sword in the Stars

“They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The fountain in the centre cascades down a carved stone wall, flowing into a round pond full of koi. Their scales glow in the moonlight, bright splashes of white and orange in the dark water.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up all night, afraid of their own existence.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I don't think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Walking here with the sun-warmed air on his face he had come up against the fact that it was good just to be alive.”
― Winston Graham, Demelza

“The ribbon of milky mist still lay in the gully. It stretched down to the sea, and there were patches across the sand hills like steam from a kettle.”
― Winston Graham, Demelza

“It felt like I was actually putting myself out there, trying something new, and it would hopefully result in a year of fun rehearsals, meeting new people, and enjoying my university experience.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless