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“As if stories were not spoils of war”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“I will love you to ruination,” the Fairy King said, brushing a strand of golden hair from my cheek. “Yours or mine?” I asked. The Fairy King did not answer.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“But if fairies and monsters were real, so were the women who defeated them.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“You don't have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“She was tired, tired of trying so hard for something she didn’t even want.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“That was the truth at the very center of everything, the truth she had tried her whole life to evade: there were no fairies, no magic, and the world was just ordinary and cruel.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“the difference between god and demon is really only a matter of perspective.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“No one sees clearly during a war. History gives perspective”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Suffice it to say at this point: Never trust an oracle. And never trust a wise man to do the work of a felon.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“I would never be one of them. I knew that now. I was alone. I would always be alone. I'd learnt my lesson for good, this time.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Always look on the bright side. And if there is no bright side?
Look away.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Clever folk aren’t popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don’t fit in.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
No one's immune to bribery.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Most problems can be solved through cake.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“a man often meets his destiny running to avoid it,”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“When the going gets tough, choose your cliché.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Thor had always been popular. Big and strong and good-natured and about as bright as your average Labrador,”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Above rowan and yew, the elm tree stands tall. It waits along borders, a sentry at call.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“You’re a Rowan. Don’t you take whatever you fancy?” “Clearly not, when all I fancy is a proper night’s sleep.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“He has looked pain in the eye - and refused to let it make a monster of him”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“I’d be your King, but always your servant. Never your keeper.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“For nothing is safe, and nothing is free. Debt follows all men, no matter their plea. When the Shepherd returns, a new day shall ring. Death to the Rowans.” His gray eyes focused, homing in on Elm. “Long live the King.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Saying there must be another way does not make it so”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“It’s a library, Daphne. If you can’t be a human here, where can you?”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren't imaginative enough to dream up.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story