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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“I am being perfectly fucking civil.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling."
"It's called being dead," Ronan replied.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“- You're going to have to be brave.
- I'm always brave.
- Braver than that.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.”
― Andrew Taylor, The Anatomy of Ghosts

“Why do we think only the dead haunt us, for the living are just as good at it?”
― Andrew Taylor

“We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.”
― Andrew Taylor, The Anatomy of Ghosts

“We were so little when you took away all our sins.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“- …Marin sits indoors and has ideas, but does not understand the nuances involved in actual trade. I've been doing this for twenty years! For too long - he sighs. - One must tread carefully, and yet she crashes like an elephant.

- I see – Nella says, though she has no idea what an elephant is. It sounds like an elegant flower, but Johannes didn’t seem to be paying his sister a compliment.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“We were born to imagine.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“Breakfast brought an oppressive gloom down upon my spirit. Soft-boiled eggs oozed a golden ichor of loneliness onto my spoon; the buttered rolls spoke only of the further torment of my being. Failure swirled in the milky depths of my tea and the bacon I devoured was the bacon of grief.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“The name suggested that where there were pork scratchings there were pork itchings, and mental images of pigs with terrible skin diseases filled his mind. Had he just been chewing on hog scabs?”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Detective

“It took courage to live an immortal life and not close off your heart and mind to any new experiences or new people. Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire