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  • #1
    Mary Hoffman
    “There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.”
    Mary Hoffman, City of Flowers

  • #2
    Mary Hoffman
    “We are in a tight corner, now, I agree. But we have been in tight corners before and come out of them. You have to be brave a little longer.”
    Mary Hoffman, City of Flowers

  • #3
    Mary Hoffman
    “I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”
    Mary Hoffman, City of Masks

  • #4
    Mary Hoffman
    “My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna.
    "I don't think so. I think it might be treason to kill a duke," said Luciano.
    "But you're not a duke," said Arianna.
    "I will be if you marry me," said Luciano.
    "Yes, you would be," said Arianna.
    "Would?"
    "If you are asking me."
    "I'm asking."
    "And if I accepted."
    "Do you?"
    "I do. With all my heart.”
    Mary Hoffman, City of Flowers

  • #5
    Mary Hoffman
    “If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme”
    Mary Hoffman, City of Masks

  • #6
    Mary Hoffman
    “I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.”
    Mary Hoffman, City of Flowers

  • #7
    Mary Hoffman
    “How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked.

    'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it.”
    Mary Hoffman, David

  • #8
    Mary Hoffman
    “Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce!”
    Mary Hoffman, The Falconer's Knot: A Story of Friars, Flirtation and Foul Play

  • #9
    Mary Hoffman
    “As long as Luciano and Arianna were together, he felt that all was right with the world.”
    Mary Hoffman

  • #10
    Lorenzo de' Medici
    “Quant'é bella giovinezza
    Che si fugge tuttavia
    Chi vuol esser lieto, sia;
    Di doman non c'é certezza”
    Lorenzo de' Medici

  • #11
    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Ancora Imparo

    (Yet I am learning)”
    Michelangelo

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Marjorie M. Liu
    “To quote the poets... we're fucked.”
    Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

  • #14
    Marjorie M. Liu
    “There's more hunger in the world than love.”
    Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

  • #15
    Jesse Nolan Bailey
    “You’re looking up and seeing the vastness of the universe, rather than the ground that tries to convince you that it is all that is and ever will be.”
    Jesse Nolan Bailey, The Jealousy of Jalice

  • #16
    Jesse Nolan Bailey
    “Waste the air and speak,” the telepathic voice growled, “or I’ll rip your mind to shreds until nothing but a wish to die remains inside it.”
    Jesse Nolan Bailey, The Jealousy of Jalice

  • #17
    Rachel Alexander
    “Persephone Praxidike Chthonios. She Who Destroys the Light. Carrier of Curses. The Iron Queen of the Underworld.”
    Rachel Alexander, Receiver of Many

  • #18
    Rachel Alexander
    “Persephone, I have loved you and only you for forty thousand years. And I will love you and only you until the stars are shaken out of the sky.”
    Rachel Alexander, Receiver of Many

  • #19
    Rachel Alexander
    “Draped down the front of her clothes were more jewels than the oldest, richest dynasty could hope to acquire in all its generations, much less a single mortal in a short lifetime. Any one of the rubies in her hair could ransom a princess.”
    Rachel Alexander, Destroyer of Light

  • #20
    Rachel Alexander
    “Answer her name, and you’re a fool. Answer his, and you’re a liar.”
    Rachel Alexander, Destroyer of Light

  • #21
    Rachel Alexander
    “I was finally happy”
    Rachel Alexander, Destroyer of Light

  • #22
    Rachel Alexander
    “Sisyphus is dangerous, mother.” Persephone said as the Oneiroi lifted into the air and circled about them again. She reached out toward the circle of flames and pulled their destination closer. The walled citadel of Ephyra appeared before them in the widening pathway through the ether. The Queen of the Underworld took a step toward it and looked at her mother one last time. “But so am I.”
    Rachel Alexander, Destroyer of Light

  • #23
    Rachel Alexander
    “One, who is twice woven, cannot remain your own.”
    “Two, the ether bound, who shines the torch in darkness.”
    “Three, the blessed harbinger, who reaps the reaper’s heart.”
    “All at last aeon’s end,” they said together, “And all to end the aeon.”
    Rachel Alexander, Destroyer of Light

  • #24
    Kevin Wignall
    “Like the address, the note was printed in Comic Sans, which seemed like a slight in itself.”
    Kevin Wignall, Those Who Disappeared

  • #25
    Kevin Wignall
    “So you slept with a Medici. It doesn’t stop you being Michelangelo.”
    Kevin Wignall, Those Who Disappeared

  • #26
    “Because my dear, it’s when you suffer that you know it’s real.”
    Nick Askew



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