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“My magic moves, he said. My magic bites. My magic soothes. My magic frights. You are young and not so bold. I am unflinching—five hundred years old.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“I know no one’s going to ask me what I want, the Nightmare said, snide to his bones, but just in case you were wondering, the answer is no. No, I am decidedly NOT agreeable.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“Trees, the Nightmare muttered, scraping his claws. Now we must play at tea with Blunder’s bottom-feeders? You said joining these fools would be dangerous. You said nothing of torture.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“Everyone was watching him, brows high. When I looked up, Ravyn’s gaze was on me, his mouth upturned, his teeth tugging at his bottom lip. “Morning.” He looked stupidly handsome, smug to his boots. I hid behind my teacup. “Morning.” Next to him, Elm’s face twisted in a grimace. “What the hell’s wrong with you?” Ravyn took a bite of bread and leaned back in his chair. “What do you mean?” “You’re smiling.” Elm looked over the table. “Does no one else find that incredibly unnerving?”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“Are you still pretending?” I said, reveling in his gaze. Ravyn gave a surprised laugh and, in front of everyone, leaned in and kissed me. “I never was,” he whispered into my lips.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“but I know what it feels like to lose someone you love. To feel as if you’re left behind, or like your life is in shambles and there’s no guidebook to tell you how to stitch it back together. But time will slowly heal you, as it is doing for me. There are good days and there are difficult days. Your grief will never fully fade; it will always be with you—a shadow you carry in your soul—but it will become fainter as your life becomes brighter. You will learn to live outside of it again, as impossible as that may sound. Others who share your pain will also help you heal. Because you are not alone. Not in your fear or your grief or your hopes or your dreams. You are not alone.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“Ask me nicely.” He leans closer. “Have you always been this tall?” I blurt the first thing that comes to mind. “No. I was a child at some point.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“She’s a flame, and I’m going to get burned. An ocean and I’m going to drown.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“You named your horse…Horse?”
― Demi Winters, The Road of Bones

“I won’t lie to you,” Silla lied. Gods’ sacred ashes, she was lying about lying.”
― Demi Winters, The Road of Bones

“In a minute, you’ll be called up to confess the worst things you’ve ever done so the group has leverage on you if you try to quit. Then we’ll all strip naked and put a drop of blood in a chalice, and you have to drink it. It’s the second test of loyalty.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“- Sabersythes The dragons that live in The Burn. They are large boxy creatures with scales, spikes, and heavily tusked faces. They come in many different colors, such as rust, bronze, red, brown, black, and gold. They are heat-loving creatures and cannot survive for long in the fierce cold of The Shade. They can be very boisterous and aggressive and are almost as hard to charm or steal an egg from as the Moonplumes are.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched

“I came here to lure one monster, and ended up snagging two.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched

“You can reshape a turd an infinite number of times, but it’s still a turd.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched

“You hold your family’s fortune, Signa. But should you marry, it will no longer be yours alone. You’ll be giving everything—your wealth, your wants, your power—to a man who will hold more influence and respect than you as a woman will ever be able to garner for yourself in this world.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“I know how society teaches us to be soft and dull and compliant, but you will not be any of those things, do you understand? Do not change the parts of yourself that you like to make others comfortable. Do not try to mold yourself to fit the standards someone else has set for us.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“Funny how a new idea from the mind of man is innovation, but the observations of a woman are written off as fanciful wonderings of a girl made too idle.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“My name is Tisaanah. I am from Threll. I am friend of Zeryth Aldris.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“we were still about as close as Cady Heron and Regina George.”
― Danielle Lori, The Maddest Obsession

“He snagged a cupcake off the counter and let his gaze rake over me. “Hey, jailbait.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Come out and fight like your balls didn’t rot off decades ago!”
― Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood

“An ass was an ass. There was nothing spectacular about any ass,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“What? Too good to scrub the skids from an old woman’s drawers? And before you say yes, remember that I wiped your shitty ass more times than I care to count when you were a babe.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“French Glossary À la tienne. Cheers. Absolument pas. Absolutely not. Adieu. Farewell. Allez-y. Go ahead. Au revoir. Goodbye. Bon, tu viens ou pas? Well, are you coming or not?”
― Olivia Wildenstein, Feather

“I shut the book, shocked by the final plot twist—the duke hadn’t gotten the girl; the stable boy had. I wasn’t sure how I felt about the turn of events. I’d been so certain the heroine would end up with the duke that I’d discarded the stable boy, and here he was besting his sovereign.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, Feather

“Get yourself a snoda as soon as possible.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“No doubt our exchanges with Tulan have become as familiar to you as your own bowel movements—”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“You have consumed my thoughts since the moment I met you,” he said to her. “I feel now, in your presence, entirely strange. I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“There are good things on the horizon for you, my dear. Good, wonderful things.” She pulls away enough to hold her granddaughter’s gaze, paper thin palm cupping her smooth cheek. “There always is after a big storm, but you need to have faith that your rainbow will come or else you’ll miss it.”
― R. Raeta, Ladybirds

“It’s still probably just a telemarketer call (they seem to be the only ones that bother with voicemails anymore) but she decides to listen anyway. Part of her is just curious to see what the latest scam is—it’s been a while since she got the one about the car payment she didn’t have being overdue. Longer still since anyone’s called about her “home warranty”.”
― R. Raeta, Ladybirds