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“I still wasn’t sure that I loved him. Love—the kind that was holy to Aphrodite—was not something I had ever allowed myself to think about much. If you desired someone, if he comforted you, if you thought he might leech the poison out of your heart, was that love? Or only desperation?”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Let me give you your first and most important lesson, Allison Sekemoto—you are a monster.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“And if it gets you killed?” She shrugged and looked away. “No one lives forever.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Lost Prince

“Honestly, why do boys always think they know what’s best for us? Why can’t they just talk?” “I’ve often wondered the same, darling,” Leanansidhe sighed. “It’s one of the mysteries of the universe, trust me.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Lost Prince

“The mighty hunter,” I quipped as we snuck out the back door, escaping into the yard. “He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“My name is Ashallyn'darkmyr Tallyn, third son of the Unseelie Court...Let it be known--from this day forth, I vow to protect Meghan Chase, daughter of the Summer King, with my sword, my honor, and my life. Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit. This I swear, on my honor, my True Name, and my life. From this day on..." His voice went even softer, but I still heard it as though he whispered it into my ear. "I am yours.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen

“You tell the false king he doesn’t have to send anyone to get me,” I said in the firmest voice I could manage. “I’m coming for him. I’m coming for him, and when I find him, I’m going to kill him.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen

“Puck, I know you’re awake. We’re leaving.” “Oh, thank God.” Puck snorted and hopped to his feet. “I was afraid I’d have to listen to you two slobber all morning. I’m already feeling slightly sick—please don’t make it worse.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen

“Long ago,” he began, “someone told me that I would be cursed in love, that those I came to cherish would be torn from me, that as long as I remained soulless, I would lose everyone I truly cared for.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen

“Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“Then I heard him shout, "Damn you! Why?"
I looked through the clear glass of the narthex doors to see if he spoke to some barely seen faerie. But to my eyes, there was no one there but Luke and God.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“You're like me. We're watchers of this world, aren't we? Not players.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human. Delia: Why? Faerie: Untold delights and youth forever. Delia: I'm holding out for a better offer. Ta.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“Didn't you hear their music, my friend? Have you ever heard humans make music like that before? That must be what love is."
Behind me, Luke's voice was sympathetic. "It's just what it sounds like.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“Luke turned toward him and snarled, "Don't tell me
that. I've lived in hell for the past thousand years. I spent a thousand years wishing I'd never been born." He thrust a finger toward me. "She's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her-a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for. Do you really think God would forgive me for the blood on my hands, even if my soul was free? I'm going to hell no matter what happens. Let me have my pathetic hopeless love while I can. Just-let me pretend it will turn out all right.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“You can't force someone to love you-don't you get it? You can force them to kill for you. You can force them to be your subjects. You can't make someone love you!”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“Fear is strange thing. It has the power to make people close their eyes, turn away. Nothibg good grows out of fear.”
― Victoria Schwab

“The morning is a stealthy hunter, my father used to say. It sneaks up quiet and quick on the night and overtakes it.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Near Witch

“All Near knows.” “All Near forgets.” “Or tries.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Near Witch

“Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Near Witch

“It is as if the moon and the trees have switched places. The sky is plunged into the heavy cloud-lidded darkness that seems to come every night, but in the valley below, the trees—or the places between the trees, it is impossible to tell the source—are fully lit, glowing. The woods are alight like an ember, bluish white and cradled by the rolling hills. It’s like a beacon, I think with a chill. So this is what happens when the world goes black. The forest steals the light from the sky. Cole straightens beside me, taking ragged breaths. I cannot stop staring at the glowing trees. It is strange and magical. Almost lovely. The wind song has become simply a song, clear and articulate, as if made by an instrument instead of the air. It is all a perfect dream.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Near Witch

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I’m like a grenade, Mom. I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“But he didn’t survive a war, not really,” Augustus said. “He survived a genocide.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Appraising myself in the mirror as I brushed my teeth, I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“So what was it like?” she asked. “Having your boyfriend die? Um, it sucks.” “No,” she said. “Being in love.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I want to leave a mark.

But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“She’s still taking on water.” A desert blessing, an ocean curse.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You’re supposed to, I think. Just like you were supposed to come to Cairnholm.” “I don’t believe in stuff like that. Fate. The stars. Destiny.” “I didn’t say destiny.” “Supposed to is the same thing,” I said. “Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It’s a lot of crap.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City