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“We are women,” she continued, “and nothing short of death stops us from doing precisely what we wish to do. That is what the laws and restrictions binding our lives breed: determination and cunning. The likes of you will not obey me. You will tell me that you intend to be as still as a rock, and yet I know you will dart from shadow to shadow like a fish.”
― June Hur, The Red Palace

“Okay then. Let’s go get our girl back." "My girl," I correct him. "She’s my girl." Kenji snorts as we head in the direction of the compounds. "Right. Minus the part where she’s not actually your girl. Not anymore." "Shut up." "Uh-huh." "Whatever.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Fracture Me

“Because I have waited a long time for you to notice me, Summer Tanberry, and I'm not about to lose you now.”
― Cathy Cassidy, Chocolate Box Girls: Summers Dream

“A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to protect you. I’m sorry I never got to tell you. I’m sorry I never kissed you.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Was that fair? Maybe Red’s understanding of it was skewed, because it didn’t seem fair at all, her life in the hands of five other people. But when had life ever been fair to her, why should death be any different?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“If only it had been that easy, Oliver. Throw money at the problem.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Oliver Charles Lavoy. “Madeline Joy Lavoy. “Reyna Flores-Serrano. “Arthur Grant Moore. “Simon Jinsun Yoo. “Redford Kenny.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Little Red Kenny, poor as dirt and a dead mom, but she had potential, hadn’t you heard?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Want to know a secret?” Arthur said, his voice dipping into whispers, eyes flashing from behind his glasses. “I think you’re smarter.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“Who had they been, all these mothers and sisters and wives? What were they now? Moons, blank and faceless, gleaming with borrowed light, each spinning loyally around a bigger sphere.
‘Invisible,’ said Faith under her breath. Women and girls were so often unseen, forgotten, afterthoughts. Faith herself had used it to good effect, hiding in plain sight and living a double life. But she had been blinded by exactly the same invisibility-of-the-mind, and was only just realizing it.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“It has made me what I am. When every door is closed, one learns to climb through windows. Human nature, I suppose.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“Large people tend to have large heads. Men are no cleverer than we are, Miss Sunderly. Just taller.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“I did not see your mother at the funeral,’ she said, following the thought. ‘She stopped coming to them after her own,’ Paul answered simply.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“For a tiny instant Faith wondered whether it would benefit the doctor's investigation if he experienced a cliff fall first-hand.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“here in the drawing room, each lady quietly relaxed and became more real, expanding into the space left by the men. Without visibly changing, they unfolded, like flowers, or knives.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“She had always known that she was rated less than Howard, the treasured son. Now, however, she knew that she was ranked somewhere below “miscellaneous cuttings.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“I was always awake!” interrupted Faith. “I was always angry!”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“Have you become a zookeeper and a lawyer since breakfast?”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“Show me how clever you can be, Faith.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“Right now he was trying to make a whole strange new world feel safe.”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“Nothing is longer than a little while.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Box in the Woods

“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“November 20. Andrius's birthday. I had counted the days carefully. I wished him a happy birthday when I woke and thought about him while hauling logs during the day. At night, I sat by the light of the stove, reading Dombey and Son. Krasivaya. I still hadn't found the word. Maybe I'd find it if I jumped ahead. I flipped through some of the pages. A marking caught my eye. I leafed backward. Something was written in pencil in the margin of 278.
Hello, Lina. You've gotten to page 278. That's pretty good!
I gasped, then pretened I was engrossed in the book. I looked at Andrius's handwritting. I ran my finger over this elongated letters in my name. Were there more? I knew I should read onward. I couldn't wait. I turned though the pages carefully, scanning the margins.
Page 300:
Are you really on page 300 or are you skipping ahead now?
I had to stifle my laughter.
Page 322:
Dombey and Son is boring. Admit it.
Page 364:
I'm thinking of you.
Page 412:
Are you maybe thinking of me?
I closed my eyes.
Yes, I'm thinking of you. Happy birthday, Andrius.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Andrius, I'm...scared."

He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire