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“Trust had become a commodity that few could afford.”
― Kimberly Derting

“Paranoia was always a potential side effect.”
― Kimberly Derting

“Curiosity is an addictive drug.”
― Kimberly Derting, The Pledge

“What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.”
― Juliet Marillier

“The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“I learned that in the end, only I was responsible for my actions.”
― Juliet Marillier

“Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.”
― Sharon Shinn, Summers at Castle Auburn

“she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.”
― Sharon Shinn, Summers at Castle Auburn

“But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.”
― Sharon Shinn, Summers at Castle Auburn

“Fear can be a big motivator.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Outside In

“Knowing and believing are sometimes hard to combine.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Outside In

“... I had realized my fears and acknowledged my mistakes.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Outside In

“We all have to live with our past, but it doesn’t have to define us.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“I say take what good you can get, and next time make it better,”
― Tracy March, The Practice Proposal

“He of all people knew how negative thinking could sabotage things.”
― Tracy March, The Practice Proposal

“You can have all the right reasons in the world. They don’t mean shit, my friend, if what you do causes harm.”
― Thea Harrison, Kinked

“Hope and carbohydrates were a powerful combination.”
― Thea Harrison, Kinked

“...but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn’t come with complications.”
― Larissa Ione, Chained by Night

“She trailed her fingers along the book spines as she wandered around the room. “My father thinks reading is a waste of time.” Hunter thought her father was a waste of space.”
― Larissa Ione

“You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor.”
― Sharon Shinn

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun. Man cannot know in any higher sense than this, any more than he can look serenely and with impunity in the face of the sun: “You will not perceive that, as perceiving a particular thing,” say the Chaldean Oracles.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays