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  • #1
    Kiersten White
    “On our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #2
    Kiersten White
    “As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.
    Let her be strong.
    Let her be sly.
    And let her be ugly.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken
    tags: lada

  • #3
    Kiersten White
    “They are less than the mud. You do not get angry at the mud for clinging to your shoe. You wipe it off and never look at it again.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #4
    Kiersten White
    “If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #5
    Kiersten White
    “She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #6
    Kiersten White
    “Ugh," she muttered, tugging his hair. "Your are so pretty. Like delicate butterfly beneath my boot."
    "Ugh, " he replied, pulling one of her own curls, which were thick and coarse. "You are so mad. Like a rabid hound that needs to be put down.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #7
    Kiersten White
    “In the spirit of friendship, I must tell you that I am bitterly jealous of the time you spend in the Janissaries' company. I want you to stop training with them."
    "And in the spirit of friendship, I must tell you that I do not care in the slightest about your petty jealousies. I am late for my training.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #8
    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”
    Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

  • #9
    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away.”
    Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

  • #10
    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.”
    Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

  • #11
    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “Yes, I’m a reader. Kill me. I could tell you I was raised in the library and the books were my only friends, but I didn’t do that, did I? Because I have mercy. I’m neither a genius nor a kid destined to become a wizard. I’m just me. I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”
    Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

  • #12
    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “I {} you more than [[[{{{}}}]]].”
    Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

  • #13
    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?”
    Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

  • #14
    Kiersten White
    “Lada had a sense for power--the fine threads that connected everyone around her, the way those threads could be pulled, tightened, wrapped around someone until they cut off the blood supply.
    Or snapped entirely.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #15
    Kiersten White
    “And so she cut out her heart and offered it as a sacrifice. She would pay whatever price her mother Wallachia demanded.
    “Make me prince,” she said without feeling.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #16
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #18
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency 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

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #30
    Jane Austen
    “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #31
    Jane Austen
    “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice



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