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“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I love you, Blue. I loved you then, I love you now, I’ll love you tomorrow even if I’m no longer on this earth. No time exists where I won’t love you.”
― Caroline Peckham, Fated Throne

“Hello, Feyre darling,” he purred.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“If I had a heart to give, it would be all yours. Free of cost.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“That’s why you always check the fine print.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“To whatever end?” she breathed. Rowan followed her, as he had his entire life, long before they had ever met, before their souls had sparked into existence. “To whatever end, Fireheart.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“I could tell by the way you looked at her, she was something real special.” “How did I look at her?” He was afraid to find out. “Ah, son. Like a summer day showing up after a hundred years of winter.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“There is only her”
― Susanne Valenti, Fated Throne

“You were always in my head. And I could never get you out.”
― Ali Hazelwood , Love on the Brain

“I want to tell her that she's luminous, she's so bright in my mind, sometimes I can't focus.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“I can give you nice. I can give you better than nice. I can give you everything.” He smiles at me, full of hope. “You don’t even have to admit to yourself that you love me, Bee. God knows I love you enough for the both of us. But I need you to stay. I need you to stick around. Not in Houston, if you don’t want to. I’ll follow you, if you ask me to.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Let’s go rattle the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“There are no kind masters, Letty,’ Anthony continued. ‘It doesn’t matter how lenient, how gracious, how invested in your education they make out to be. Masters are masters in the end.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“I am catastrophically in love with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Rosalyn Graham,
Will you be my best friend?
My roommate.
My Dancing Queen.
My experiment life partner.
My heart.
Will you be mine, just like I'm completely, hopelessly yours?”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“I read you like you were my favorite book, Rosie. Like I’ve memorized you.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Rosie: you’re supposed to side with me. Lucas: I’ll always be on your side.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“I've waited enough. I've waited a lifetime without me knowing. So why don't you open this door and let me show you?”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment