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  • #1
    Roshani Chokshi
    “--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of good.”
    Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

  • #2
    A.J. Vrana
    “Once upon a time, when the earth was formless and empty, and darkness stretched over the surface of the deep, we plunged one another into the abyss, and the world has trembled ever since.”
    A.J. Vrana, The Hollow Gods

  • #3
    Mindy Kaling
    “Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.”
    Mindy Kaling

  • #4
    A.J. Vrana
    “Cut the seams of reality, and chaos is bound to spill out.”
    A.J. Vrana, The Hollow Gods

  • #5
    Roshani Chokshi
    “When the devil waged war in the heavens, even angels had to fall.”
    Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

  • #6
    Clarence Darrow
    “I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
    Clarence Darrow

  • #7
    Isabella August
    “You'll forget me," a soft voice promised.
    "I won't forget you," she whispered. "How could I?"
    "You will," he assured her.”
    Isabella August, Crown of Frost

  • #8
    Isabella August
    “I was going to be merciful and let you sleep in," he growled. "You are severely testing the limits of my generosity.”
    Isabella August, Crown of Frost

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #11
    Marie Rutkoski
    “Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well.
    Her worst trait. Her best trait.
    The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb.
    A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth.”
    Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

  • #12
    Marie Rutkoski
    “Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.”
    Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

  • #13
    Marie Rutkoski
    “Once there was a girl who was too sure of herself. Not everyone would call her beautiful, but they admitted that she had a certain grace that intimidated more often than it charmed. She was not, society agreed, someone you wanted to cross. She keeps her heart in a porcelain box, people whispered, and they were right.”
    Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

  • #14
    Philip Wyeth
    “And I know that we won't be able to escape it in deep space, either. We might succeed in ignoring this doubt for a while—keep everyone so busy doing what it takes to build the ships to get us out there. But eventually the bustle ends, and then we're left with ourselves again. It'll be the loneliest revelation ever—half a million miles from home.”
    Philip Wyeth, Reparations Core

  • #15
    Philip Wyeth
    “Have we not already seen the cultural malaise of the past fifty years, as people living within this worldwide cargo cult have been divorced from the need to produce anything, as well as from the consequences of their own actions? They have incrementally been separated from the land, from their factories, from creating art, and now they even abandon marriage and reproduction.”
    Philip Wyeth, Reparations Mind

  • #16
    Roshani Chokshi
    “There were so many wants inside him that he doubted there was room for blood in his body.”
    Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

  • #17
    Roshani Chokshi
    “See how the symbols stretch across all three shields? They represent a god."
    Hypnos frowned. "There's a God of lions and knives and wineglasses? That seems incredibly specific."
    "This god is Shezmu," said Enrique, rolling his eyes. "He's seldom depicted, perhaps because he's at such odds with himself. On the other hand, he's the lord of perfumes and gracious oils, often considered something of a celebration deity."
    "My kind of god," said Hypnos.
    "He is also the god of slaughter, blood and dismemberment."
    "I amend my original statement," said Hypnos.”
    Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

  • #18
    Roshani Chokshi
    "You see that, my Zosia?" he had asked. "That is the devil. When a man cannot see a person as a person, then the devil has slipped into him and is peering out of his eyes."
    Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

  • #19
    Amie Kaufman
    “Ty is a natural leader and a brilliant tactician, but according to his sister, he "wouldn't know fun if it invaded his planet.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #20
    Amie Kaufman
    “Billions of words over thousands of years. Songs and sonnets, couplets and hymns. All trying to evoke even a fraction of how this feels. Having lived it now, I know not a single one of them has come close.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #21
    Amie Kaufman
    “The Pull is more than words. Love is a drop in the ocean of what I feel for her. Love is a single sun in a heaven full of stars.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #22
    Amie Kaufman
    “I know my friends, and they are few. But those few I have, I would die for.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #23
    Amie Kaufman
    “It is difficult. To be one who endures.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #24
    Amie Kaufman
    “We were born with our hands in fists, little one. We were born with the taste of blood in our mouths. We were born for war. Unbroken.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #25
    Amie Kaufman
    “We are warriors, Tyler Jones, not widows. Weep not for the wages of war.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #26
    Amie Kaufman
    “Those who seek answers and those who answer most questions with conflict seldom get along.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #27
    Amie Kaufman
    “When we were young, she was the star in my heavens.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #28
    Amie Kaufman
    “Mercy is the province of cowards.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #29
    Amie Kaufman
    “There is nothing as painful, or as simple, as doing what is right.”
    Amie Kaufman

  • #30
    Amie Kaufman
    “I know blooded warriors who would have crumbled to dust under such a weight. And yet, here you stand. Strong and beautiful and unconquered.”
    Amie Kaufman



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