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“With wings like clear ice, the purple-black fairy flew down and pressed her tiny lips to Ilyenna’s. Suddenly, the cold embraced her like an old friend. She felt as if winter’s secrets were hidden somewhere deep inside her, waiting to be discovered.”
― Amber Argyle, Winter Queen

“A fairy’s kiss also has the power to kill,”
― Amber Argyle, Winter Queen

“Cuz I look like Barbie.” I reply, knowing they can connect the dots. “Bad girls don’t like Barbie?” Michael asks, both his eyebrows rising. “No. Bad girls want to rip Barbie’s head off and flush it down the toilet,”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket,” Trey says in a calm, soothing voice. “The stars here are in opposition to you . . . can’t you feel it? You are foreign to them. You have no ancestry here—no lineage. Let us take you home.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“Trey, I thought that the Znou was beautiful and I wanted to keep it,” I say, explaining myself to him. “I wasn’t trying to kill myself. If I get suicidal, you’ll know ’cuz I’ll be dead. The only thing I’m feeling right now is homicidal, so watch your back.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“when the crickets stop singing that you know the enemy is near and the battle is about to begin.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“I wouldn’t describe it like that. It was . . . hazardous and delicate. I’ve had easier times disarming explosives . . .”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“was good to see a dragon’s teeth. A dragon with his mouth closed was far more likely to be working up a flame. That seemed completely obvious.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“You bluffed him? A Porphyrian double ton of fire and brimstone, fangs like swords, claws like … like swords! And you just … bluffed him?”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“The future would come, full of war and uncertainty, but I would not be facing it alone. I had love and work, friends and a people. I had a place to stand.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“You snored,” Kestrel said. “I did not.” “You did. You snored so loudly that the people in my dreams complained.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

“Her blood felt laced with black powder. How could she have forgotten what it was like to burn on a fuse before him?”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

“Sometimes you think you want something,” Arin told him, “when what you need is to let it go.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

“Maybe my ma was sick of the corsets.”
― Jennifer Ellision, Threats of Sky and Sea

“If they tell me one more time that I’m using the wrong fork for a part of a meal, I swear I’ll show them exactly how multifunctional the utensil can be.”
― Jennifer Ellision, Threats of Sky and Sea

“They think I am glass,” she says. She’s hard again. “But I am not. I am not delicate. I am stone. If they want to break me, they will have a hard time of it. I am unbreakable.”
― Jennifer Ellision, Threats of Sky and Sea

“You’re a genuine Greek god. You’re the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog Spot?”
― Jim Butcher, Skin Game