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“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
― Charlotte Whitton

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.

The way things work, how
guys feel great, but make girls feel
cheap for doing
exactly what
they beg for.

The way they get to play you,
all the while claiming they
love you and making you
believe it's
true.

The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next,
to move on to the apricot
when the peach blushes and bruises.

These things make me believe God's a man after all.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver, and the idea of leaving behind an everlasting legacy can spur even the most cautious person to proceed recklessly.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Like mold on books, grow myths on history.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of
the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Not slumber, but sleep just this side of waking, where dreams fuse with reality.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Because you don't think I'm a bad person," he said. "And I don't want to prove you wrong.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Be lost and then you will not care if you are ever found.”
― V. E. Schwab

“I feel wonderful. I feel like roses and sunshine and glitter.”
― V. E. Schwab

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequences.”
― V. E. Schwab, Vicious

“She felt frozen all over again but in a different way. It wasn't icy water. It was fear.”
― V. E. Schwab