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“I have so much to tell you.
But time is short. And the Veil is thick.
And it takes magic to speak, a soul full of it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Mortals have nothing on the gods or creatures for power, but we know a thing or two about self-destruction.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same—playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places.

(this book is for those who know this to be true)”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

“I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Maybe dogs were one of the secrets of the universe.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“You’ve read the books?”
“I’ve seen the movies.”
Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”
“I’m not really a book person.”
“That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry”
― Rupi Kaur

“No," Cath said, "Seriously. Look at you. You’ve got your shit together, you’re not scared of anything. I’m scared of everything. And I’m crazy. Like maybe you think I’m a little crazy, but I only ever let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and socially inept, I’m a complete disaster.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“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

“Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"Yes."
"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
"Yes."
"Have a biscuit, Potter.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
“It sets a dangerous precedent.”
“For avoiding pain?”
“For avoiding life.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“You have to be brave before you can be good.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 5

“The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“But two centuries of anger had not served him nearly as well as one day of honesty.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“It was hard to play it cool when you wore your heart on your face.”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“Fond as I am of him, he does chronically suffer from a touch of motherfucker.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“You can't simply look at time as a function of comings and goings. Time is always in motion, even if you personally opt to desist. Whether you come or go or leave or stay, time continues. People are left. People are found. To think that resigning yourself to permanence is itself a state of permanence is already made in error.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“Brandt had traveled all of the worlds, carrying nothing but a book and the knowledge of the places Fox liked to touch and where he liked to be touched. Of where he sought to conquer and where he laid himself adrift in Brandt’s so often shaking hands.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“Maybe he'd known it the moment she'd set eyes on him, in some manner of speaking, because it was the first, the only time Tom Parker had even been witnessed. and it was easier to be cruel than it was to be seen.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“You believed in me when I was a ghost," he reminded her, "so I don't see why your faith in me should somehow lessen when you have me in your hands."
"Do I?" she asked. "Have you?"
"In the palm of your hand," he said, and it sounded suspiciously like a promise, but she shook her head, pulling away.
"This is the game," she said. "Isn't it?"
"Do you feel something?" he asked. "It doesn't feel like a game to me."
"But it is," she insisted. "And I think I understand it now."
And she did.
(Don't lose.)
(Gamble everything, but don't lose.)”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

“People have secrets, Fox," Volos said in his ear, a perfect imitation of his godfather's voice. "Understand a person's heart, what makes them soft and what makes them hard, and find the source. Then--" The demon king gave a delicate laugh. "What was it? Ah, yes." His fingers tightened again. "Drive it in them like a knife.”
― Olivie Blake, Masters of Death