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#1

“Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

tags: courage, freedom, happiness

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#2

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate

6469 likes

#3

“Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

tags: apology, reflection

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#5

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

tags: darkness, emptiness, endurance, light

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#6

“Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

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#7

“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

tags: irony, life, masks, truth

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#8

“Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

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#8

“It is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes.”
― Susan Dennard, Windwitch

tags: aeduan

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#10

“The truth can deceive as well as a lie.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

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#12

“He knew the law of such things: people in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

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#13

“I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

tags: adelina-amouteru, dark, sexy

437 likes

#14

“Nothing in dreams can hurt you.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

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#15

“I want better choices."
"Then we must make a world that has them.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

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

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#16

“Maybe love was easy, she thought. Maybe her past wasn't vital as her present, she thought. But then she heard her father say that she'd broken his heart, and she could no longer believe that either thought was true.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

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

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#17

“It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

tags: arin, choice, giving-up, kestrel, marie-rutkoski, puppy, verex

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#18

“An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or perhaps that it wasn’t how he had said it, and she was wrong, and she’d heard a question simply because the sound of him speaking her name made her wish that she were his answer.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

tags: books, kestrel, quotes, romance, the-winner-s-crime

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#18

“I don’t mind being a moth. I would probably start eating silk if it meant that I could fly.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

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#19

“You don't, Kestrel, even though the god of lies loves you.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

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#21

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

tags: grief, heart, nikolai-lantsov, pain, protect, scars, zoya-nazyalensky

899 likes

#22

“At once slow deep green rolled over him. He took a breath, and another, smelling old rotting leaves and healthy growth and autumn light. He felt almost as though he could have planted his feet and become a tree himself, a strong oak reaching up to the sky, brother of the old oak who ruled the wood.”
― Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood

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#23

“Unwise to dream of death in a world where someone has the power to make those dreams come true.”
― Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

tags: death, dreams

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