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“I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Now it’s time to man up as you would say. What an awful expression. Can someone woman up too or is that against the law in Dimokratia ?”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“Qui est vraiment bon n'est jamais malheureux. Qui est vraiment sage n'est jamais déconcerté. Qui est vraiment vaillant n'hésite jamais.”
― A. W. Rozen, Le Chant des fleurs: 1. Un Commencement

“- Bien sûr, on va s'arrêter au salon de thé du coin et se gaver de macarons et de chocolat chaud avant de se mettre en route pour Lacombe dans ma diligence en or aux sièges en cuir molletonné.
Silence.
- Je sens comme du sarcasme.”
― Amandine Peter, De Brume et d'Ospales

“Personne ne se rappelle que sous la couche dorée, les corps se ressemblent. La même peau recouvre les mêmes os. Le même cœur bat.”
― Amandine Peter, De Brume et d'Ospales

“Stories are both an escape from the truths of the world and the only way to see them clearly.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Sometimes you don't find family in your own blood, but elsewhere.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Do you know how much I love you?"
"Even I don't know. My love for you is endless. Deep and endless, like the sea.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Il y en a qui sont faits pour marcher, toi tu es fait pour voler. Saupoudre tes rêves de poussière de fée et retourne patiner, Peter Pan. La glace t’attend.”
― Elodie Faiderbe, Coeurs glacés - Hoshi

“Elle n'est pas très à l'aise avec les étrangers. Après hier soir, elle a eu sa dose de socialisation pour la semaine. Elle a besoin de sa bulle.”
― Amandine Peter, Les Hextraordinaires

“Ma'am," I tell her. "Your husband was trying to eat you."
"A misundertanding !" she insists, still waving the only arm she has left.
I press my fingers to the bridge of my nose. "He ripped off your arm."
"An accident."
"He ate it."
"He was hungry. It's a shame to let these things go to waste.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, City of Nightmares

“Il viendrait un temps, un temps pour pleurer, un temps pour souffrir, pour accepter toutes ces émotions, mais pas encore, pas maintenant. [...] Ils paieront.”
― Sophie Wagner, De Marbre et de Ronces: Tome 1

“But sometimes, being loved isn't enough. Sometimes, you need to be understood.”
― Gabi Burton, Sing Me to Sleep

“And most of all, she loved the way books could transport her from her otherwise mundane and stifling life and offer the experiences of a hundred other lives.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane

“-Je voulais te dire... que je suis désolée. Pour ce qui s'est passé, je veux dire. Tu... tu t'es bien battu.
Je me serais à nouveau giflée. "Tu t'es bien battue" ? Mais je me prenais pour qui ? Shang ?”
― Alexiane De Lys, Métamorphose

“Et quand l’Océan est enfin apparu, étendue bleu nuit dans laquelle la lune jetait ses rayons d’argent, quelque chose a bougé en moi.”
― Alexiane De Lys, Métamorphose

“Tolerating wickedness can ensure your survival - but
also cause a feeling of slow death.”
― Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind

“Feel your fear and keep going anyway.”
― Kika Hatzopoulou

“Everyone deserved a living wage. No human ought to be treated as if their work didn’t matter, or their choices, or their dreams.”
― Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows

“The Nile knew everything,had seen the best and worst if Egypt.”
― Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows

“My father always says: 'You can't run from your responsibilities,' but he lacks imagination. Besides, I'm not running. I'm sidestepping. Crossing the road so me and my responsibilities don't make eye contact and aren't forced into awkward small talk both of us know isn't going anywhere.”
― Frances White, Voyage of the Damned

“I feel the vastness at my back like a loving nightmare, tendrils of it wrapping around my ankles and throat until I’m inevitably lost to it. I keep imagining the cosmos wrenching me off the ship, dragging me deep into itself, and I am a prisoner there forever, eyes wide, my screams soundless in the vacuum.”
― Meg Smitherman, Thrum

“I never said it was your god. Your god hates women. We were an afterthought.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“When in doubt, make tea. That's what her mother always said, and it had never let her down yet.”
― Jenny Sandiford, Winterfrost Market

“Master of the Shadowforged Legion but can’t cross a pond!” Talasyn exclaimed. Alaric scowled, spitting out a mouthful of dirt as he paddled in the direction of the bridge. “Lightweaver but can’t make a shield.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars