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“The most important thing you can do in this world, the most necessary thing, is to survive it. You can't do anything for anyone else if you don't take care of yourself first.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“Why someone dies is not the same question as why they are gone.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“Prythian was ruled by seven High Lords—perhaps this she was whoever governed this territory; if not a High Lord, then a High Lady. If that was even possible.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“She felt his knuckles slide against hers. Then his hand was in her hand, his palm was pressed against her own. A tremor moved through him. Slowly, he let their fingers entwine. For a long while, they stood there, hands clasped, looking out at the gray expanse of the sea.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“She had learned the practice of deception from Kaz Brekker himself, and there was no greater teacher.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“She missed Inej’s stillness, the knowledge that she could say anything to her without fear of recrimination. She missed Jesper’s laughing ways and Wylan’s sweetness. She even missed Kaz’s ruthlessness. Saints, it would have been a relief to hand over this whole mess to the bastard of the Barrel. He’d have sussed out Vadik Demidov’s origins, raided the Fjerdan treasury, and placed himself on the throne in the time it took Nina to braid her hair. On second thought, probably best Kaz wasn’t here.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Once upon a time, there was a girl as cunning as the fox in winter, as hungry as the wolf at first frost, and as cold as the icy wind that kept them at each other's throats. Her name was not Gisele, nor was it Marthe, nor even Pfennigeist. My name was -is- Vanja. And this is the story of how I got caught.”
― Margaret Owen, Little Thieves

“You’re what happens when an encyclopedia wishes on a star to be a real boy, if that encyclopedia was also an absolute prick.”
― Margaret Owen, Little Thieves

“There's a saying in the Blessed Empire: Little thieves steal gold, and great ones steal Kingdoms, but only one goes to the gallows. I'm not sure I agree. I've little interest in kingdoms, but even less in dancing with the hangman. And I've gotten very good - great, you might even say - at stealing gold.”
― Margaret Owen, Little Thieves

“I see myself for what I am: a scared girl, alone in a cruel world, abandoned by family and friend, who would rather turn herself to bloodstained stone than let anyone get close enough to leave another scar.
A girl who would rather die than serve anyone ever again. Even myself.”
― Margaret Owen, Little Thieves

“I've read fairy tales, of course, and listened to plaintive love songs, but I never understood why anyone would wake up after a hundred years and marry the prince who broke into their bedroom for a kiss. Or dance with a stranger once and decide to spend the rest of their lives together. I always felt a baffled kind of melancholy when others raptured over love at first sight, like maybe something was wrong with me, maybe I didn't know how to love someone at all.
I didn't know it wasn't just me.”
― Margaret Owen, Little Thieves

“She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Juliette had met plenty of men like him in America: men who assumed they had the right to go wherever they wished because the world had been built to favor their civilized etiquette.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“I am the heir of the Scarlet Gang," Juliette said. Her voice had grown just as sharp as her weapon. "And believe me, tángdì, I will kill you before I let you take it from me.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“We do not have the luxury of mercy, Juliette. Look at this city. Look at the starvation that squirms under the layer of glamour.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Fight dirty but fight bravely. Do not fight those who cannot understand what it means to fight.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Juliette had always prided herself on her priorities. She knew how to sight what was important, like explorers knew how to sight the north star. Her city, her gang, her family. Her family, her gang, her city.
But could an explorer still find the north star if the whole world turned upside down?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Self-hatred is an expensive hobby paid for by other people.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“You can't hide away from the consequences of who you are.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“And you said I had daddy issues," Ronan scoffed.
"They're like chicken pox," she said. "More than one person can have them at a time.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Nightwash felt a million miles away, like something that could never touch Ronan. He was the night and he was the world and he was infinite as them both.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“You might think you're too good for Requiem, but you'd better damn respect it. It'll devour you otherwise.”
― Claire Winn, City of Shattered Light

“Each crystal refracted the galaxy of city lights like a thousand prisms.
The city of shattered light. The place Kaya had wanted to start her life over. Despite the rumors, Asa couldn't deny it was beautiful.”
― Claire Winn, City of Shattered Light

“Very slowly, using only two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as far as she could into the water.
Octavian made a squeaking sound. “What was that for? I didn’t say toss it! That could’ve been evidence. Or spoils of war!”
Annabeth tried for a dumb-blonde smile, like: Oh, silly me. Nobody who knew her would have been fooled. But Octavian seemed to buy it. He huffed in exasperation.
“You other two…” He pointed his blade at Hazel and Piper. “Put your weapons on the dock. No funny bus—”
All around the Romans, Charleston Harbor erupted like a Las Vegas fountain putting on a show. When the wall of seawater subsided, the three Romans were in the bay, spluttering and frantically trying to stay afloat in their armor. Percy stood on the dock, holding Annabeth’s dagger.
“You dropped this,” he said, totally poker-faced.
Annabeth threw her arms around him. “I love you!”
“Guys,” Hazel interrupted. She had a little smile on her face. “We need to hurry.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“That was how education worked for the most part - someone disliked a system already in place and removed it without something new, or someone had a half-assed idea that sounded great in theory, but they impatiently tossed it out to the world and expected teachers to figure it out through trial and error. It's not as if these errors affect the kids or anything.”
― M.N. Bennet, Two Who Live On

“I spent so much time wrapped in other people's worlds, it had become impossible to discern what I wanted in my own.”
― M.N. Bennet, Two Who Live On

“It doesn't matter. I never - I never thought I could be the kind of person who does shit like that, even when it's necessary. But I did, and it felt so ... easy. And it makes me sick because I've been treating this like a costume. The weapons and the fighting, the idea of fighting. But it's real. People die. And I'm the reason”
― Micki Janae, Of Blood and Lightning

“There's no justice in this world, Roman. You have to forge your own.”
― Micki Janae, Of Blood and Lightning