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“Bella informs her that this is the precise reason why women's dresses no longer have pockets, to show they bear no witch-ways or ill intentions, and Juniper responds that she has both, thank you very much.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“trust is neither lost nor found, broken nor mended, but merely given.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“But I remind you that he was merely a man. Whereas we”—she looks over her spectacles at Agnes and gives her a very small smile—“are witches.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Agnes presses her lips to her daughter’s fiery hair and feels her life cleaving, splitting cleanly into two pieces: the time before, and the time after.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“She thought survival was a selfish thing, a circle drawn tight around your heart. She thought the more people you let inside that circle the more ways the world had to hurt you, the more ways you could fail them and be failed in turn. But what if it’s the opposite, and there are more people to catch you when you fall? What if there’s an invisible tipping point somewhere along the way when one becomes three becomes infinite, when there are so many of you inside that circle that you become hydra-headed, invincible?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“She knows powerful men only keep their promises when they have to, and they never have to.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“He wasn’t going to throw himself in the Thames for the misery of it all, and God knew most of London was worse off. All the same, he had a feeling that life should not have been about ten candles and two baths a week.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“The world is full of noise. And finding quiet isn’t about pushing everything out. It’s just about pulling yourself in.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“The old gods may be great, but they are neither kind nor merciful. They are fickle, unsteady as moonlight on water, or shadows in a storm. If you insist on calling them, take heed: be careful what you ask for, be willing to pay the price. And no matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Adeline has decided she would rather be a tree, like Estele. If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“if some people have natural style, or if they simply have the discipline to curate themselves every day.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“To find a way, or make your own.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Small places make for small lives. And some people are fine with that. They like knowing where to put their feet. But if you only walk in other people’s steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Everyone thinks photography is truth, but it’s just a very convincing lie.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Artworks can be transporting and transformative, but they are made by people. The individuals who make this stuff are not fundamentally different from any other humans.”
― Sarah Urist Green, You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

“These artists were, like you, individuals who looked at the world they faced, used the materials and tools they had, and tried to make something that reflects their experiences.”
― Sarah Urist Green, You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

“My hope is that you’ll come to see art as something made by human beings and that you, being human, can make, too. Thankfully, art isn’t like the other disciplines. There is no set of knowledge or list of techniques that one can master to become an artist. It’s a state of mind, and it’s a decision.”
― Sarah Urist Green, You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

“Say it with me: I am an artist. I don’t need art supplies, lots of cash, a mind other than the one I currently have, skills other than those I already possess, or a network of influential contacts. I can experience the world thoughtfully and make things to put into it. I am an artist.”
― Sarah Urist Green, You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

“one of those strange spring nights that casts an orange light on everything.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“if this is love, this gentle thing. If it is meant to be this soft, this kind. The difference between heat, and warmth. Passion, and contentment.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“This is life,” Luther said. “We change, we alter ourselves, we grow or shrink. It’s part of the human condition.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“I’m delighted to report my repaired door slammed shut on his heels beautifully.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“My anger’s a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“And they didn’t stop at safety, either. They wanted comfort, and then they wanted luxury, and then they wanted excess, and every step of the way they still wanted to be safe, even as they made themselves more and more of a tempting target, and the only way they could stay safe was to have enough power to keep everyone off that wanted what they had.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“We’re cannon fodder, and human shields, and useful new blood, and minions, and janitors and maids, and thanks to all the work the losers in here do trying to get into an alliance and an enclave after, the enclave kids get extra sleep and extra food and extra help, more than if it was only them in here. And we all get the illusion of a chance. But the only chance they’re really giving us is the chance to be useful to them.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“In a country ruled by a civil majority even the smallest minority enjoys greater protection than a majority living in a country where power is hoarded by select few,”
― Ilona Andrews, White Hot

“Monachopsis. It means a subtle but nagging feeling of not fitting in and knowing that you don’t belong in the place you are.”
― Ilona Andrews, Diamond Fire

“Things would be so easy if it wasn’t for feelings.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“My mom once told me that the American Dream was to live better than your parents.” “Do you think it’s true?” he asked. “I think everyone defines better differently. Some want more money. Others want more time.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze