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“Captain?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?"
He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head. "No. I'm pretty sure it was Cinder.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“I guess it’s time.”
While Cress’s thoughts continued to churn through the horrible things that could happen to her, she felt herself being suddenly spun around and dipped backward, a supportive arm scooping beneath her back. She yelped and caught herself on Thorne’s shoulder.
Then he was kissing her.”
― marissa meyer, Cress

“Scarlet and I are going to start a missing-fingers club. We might let Cinder be an honorary member.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Cress?"
"It's beautiful out there."
A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?"
"The sky is gorgeous, intense blue color." She pressed her fingers to the glass and traced the wavy hills on the horizon.
"Oh, good. You've really narrowed it down for me."
"I'm sorry, it's just..." She tried to stamp down the rush of emotion. "I think we're in a desert."
"Cactuses and tumbleweeds?"
"No just a lot of sand. It's kind of orangish-gold, with hints of pink, and I can see tiny clouds of it floating above the ground, like...like smoke."
"Piles up in lots of hills?"
"Yes, exactly! And it's beautiful."
Thorne snorted. "If this is how you feel about a desert, I can't wait until you see your first real tree. Your mind will explode.”
― Marissa Meyer , Cress

“Yes Kinney?" said Cinder.
"The captain and his crew are requesting an audience."
"Ha!" Thorne's voice carried from the corridor. "I told you I could get him to call me the captain."
Cinder rolled her eyes. "Let them in.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

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

“If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.”
― Aya Ling , The Ugly Stepsister

“If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too. Books open new worlds to me.”
― Aya Ling, The Ugly Stepsister

“Books open new worlds to me.”
― Aya Ling, The Ugly Stepsister

“I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting you in the leg.” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“My mother was an oyster,” he said with a wink. “And I’m the pearl.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Catch me if I fall, all right?”
A smile curved his lips in a most delightful manner. “I’ve already fallen hard, Wadsworth. Perhaps you should have warned me sooner.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

“She wants me to take out Patton.”

Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?”

“No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

“Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

“Monsters cut children open and call it progress. Monsters murder entire groups of people without blinking but get upset when they have to wash human ash from their garden strawberries. Monsters are the ones who watch other people do these things and do nothing to stop it.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Meeting you was a disaster.”
She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful for that disaster. I needed a catastrophe to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.”
“I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”
“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Every good story needs a villain.
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“They celebrate love as though it's power, even though it has killed far more humans than I ever have.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Love and madness are two stars in the same sky. You cannot build a roof to keep out last year’s rain.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“You can't win a war. Someone else just loses.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust