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“--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

tags: evil, gods, good, melancholy, monsters, philosophical, sad

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“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

tags: dark, death, fantasy, horror, poignant, revenge

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#3

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

tags: the-mindy-project

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#4

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

tags: chaos, dark, eloquent, forboding, reality

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#5

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

tags: angels, chokshi, devil, poignant, roshani, sad, war

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#6

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

tags: humor, revenge, satisfaction, triumph

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#7

“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

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#8

“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

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#9

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

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#10

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#11

“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

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#12

“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

tags: arin, feelings

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#13

“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

tags: kestrel, kestrel-trajan, marie-rutkoski, the-winner-s-kiss

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#14

“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

tags: meaning-of-life, nasa, religion, revelation, science-fiction, soul, space-travel

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#15

“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

tags: alienation, cargo-cult, malaise, modernity

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#16

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

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#17

“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

tags: clues, deity, enrique, funny, god, hypnos

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#18

“"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

tags: devil, eyes, perception, zofia

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#19

“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

tags: humor, sarcasm

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#20

“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

tags: love-quotes

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#21

“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

tags: love-quotes

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#22

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

tags: inspirational, moving-on, poignant

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#23

“It is difficult. To be one who endures.”
― Amie Kaufman

tags: comforting, emotional, poignant, sad, sorrowful

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#24

“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

tags: fighting-spirit, pride

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#25

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

tags: fighting-spirit, pride

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#26

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

tags: philosophical

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#27

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

tags: melancholy, sad, sorrowful

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#28

“Mercy is the province of cowards.”
― Amie Kaufman

tags: cowards, mercy, prideful, province

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#29

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

tags: bittersweet, conflicted-feelings, encouraging

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#30

“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

tags: admiration, encouragementement, powerful-women, strength

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