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“Write me a tragedy, Lev Fedorov,” she whispered to him. “Write me a litany of sins. Write me a plague of devastation. Write me lonely, write me wanting, write me shattered and fearful and lost. Then write me finding myself in your arms, if only for a night, and then write it again. Write it over and over, Lev, until we both know the pages by heart. Isn’t that a story, too?” she asked him softly.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“She was his comet, his shooting star. She sparkled like the heavens, and when she smiled it felt like mathematical equations sliding into place. The world in balance, each side properly weighted.
She was everything that was beauty, and everything that was brilliant, and he was –
He was not well.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.”
― Catherine Doyle, Vendetta

“I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldn’t have to.”
― Catherine Doyle, Vendetta

“It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone’s soul without them knowing.”
― Catherine Doyle, Vendetta

“Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?”
― Catherine Doyle, Vendetta

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -Winnie the Pooh”
― Lani Lynn Vale, Last Day of My Life

“I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“There was a gap between early twenties and late twenties that only people existing in bodies in their late twenties understood. You could still fight god, but you'd have to ice your knees afterward.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“We're here to make magic with words”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“The sea herself," she said. "I am her daughter, and when I'm with my mother"--she exhaled gustily--"nobody fucks with her children.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun

“The costliest mistake one can make is to underestimate one's opponent through low expectations.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun

“It's cruel, really, how the world tends to present its most beautiful parts to you when you're so profoundly sad.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen