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“I’ve been to that graveyard. It’s all tents and concrete.”
“Yes, but it’s the first place people will assume necromancers will go, and people like to shoot first and ask questions later,” said the Angel, “or worst case, maybe a necromancer will be there. I know we think they’d have the blue madness, but what we know is that we don’t know anything, okay? I want you lot to make that your motto. What we know is that we don’t know anything.”
Nona quite liked this motto. It was an accurate summary of her entire life.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Was that not how you loved someone? By hammering your body into whatever shape they liked best, and handing yourself to them like a hilt?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“I wanted just one girl, only one, to read my book and feel that she was understood, and I would be understood in return. Writing that book was like shining a beacon from a lighthouse, I suppose. Are there any ships on the horizon? Will they signal back to me?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“You did so well. You really did."

Another lie, of course, but Arthur permits himself to imagine how good it would feel to believe it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“Weaknesses were a human invention. They called it your weakness if they fantasized about murdering you with it.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“It felt so wonderful and strange to know you are your own person but begin to understand how you could also belong to wholeheartedly to someone else.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Heart Forger

“A throne was a kind of weapon by which the world was cut into two halves: the dead and the kneeling.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Ideas are the most powerful things—beauty, freedom, love. But they are harder to fight
for than things like food, or safety, or power.”
― Theodora Goss, Letters from an Imaginary Country

“More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! 'Well, he's fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical,' she said. 'Half the time I think he doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as he's alright--but then I find out how awfully kind he's been to someone. Then I think he's kind just when it suits him--only then I find out he undercharges poor people. I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. - Thorin”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“All of us have shadows in us,” he said. “I accept yours.” He placed a hand over her ring. “And I hope you will also accept mine.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“If there was no Hell waiting for us in the afterlife, I imagined you would build one with your bare hands just for me.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“She didn't have the answers, didn't know what she wanted but she hoped to figure it out soon. And so she nodded, even though she wasn't certain that she meant it.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Be a writer, if you will
Or don’t, no one will care
Order your shelves, or not
Kill or kiss your darlings
Simply write”
― Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Words mean what you want them to mean.”
― Allie Condie

“My heart knows your song, as yours knows mine. And I will always come back to you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“How will I reach Inys without you?' Tané said thickly. 'You will make a path,' Nayimathun said, gentler. 'Water always does.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice