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“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted.
And I am comforted.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“My last thought before I fell asleep was: He is dead. My only friend. My only enemy.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“I am discounted because I am a woman.”
― Brian W. Aldiss

“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”
― Brian Aldiss

“I am your maid. I know so much about you. But when it comes down to it: what is that you know about me?”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“The truth is, I often have trouble with social situations; it’s as though everyone is playing an elaborate game with complex rules they all know, but I’m always playing for the first time.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“I feel alive again, part of the fabric of things, the splendor and the color. I am part of the design, a bright, unique square, integral to the tapestry.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“I've always tried to impress upon you that your worth is not determined through the worldly goods you possess, nor will it ever decrease because someone refuses to see your value.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid's Secret

“Molly, these fans are lunatics,” Angela replied. “See those two?” She pointed to a couple in the crowd. The man held an oversize jar in his hands. “He claims he’s got Napoleon’s toilet paper in there.” “I’m sorry?” Mr. Preston exclaimed. “He swears the fine French lace in that jar was used to wipe the emperor’s royal arse. He tried to sell it to me!” “For how”
― Nita Prose, The Maid's Secret

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end,”
― Nita Prose, The Maid's Secret

“However long or short they may be, our lives can usually be pared down to a collection of choices made on a few fateful nights. Rarely do we know for sure which of these nights will be the ones that will alter everything to come. But if you pay close attention, there is a sensation, a light tingle beneath the surface of your skin, that hints at destiny.”
― Ayana Gray, I, Medusa

“I find that I’m excited to learn what my next purpose will be.
And that is enough.”
― Ayana Gray, I, Medusa

“We let each other sit in grief for the lives we had, for the girls we could’ve been, if the world were kinder.”
― Ayana Gray, I, Medusa

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Because people aren’t black and white. No matter how hard you try, you can’t stay on one path without diversions. And that doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the world, mattering to no one but themselves. It seemed utterly wrong to treat them like pennies in a purse. I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them-- this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“That is the only way to truly believe in something,” Zsigmond says. “When you’ve weighed and measured it yourself.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“Stories are supposed to live longer than people.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman