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“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Fire-breathing bitch-queen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“We are all what our pasts have made us,” Catarina said. “The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we’ve been.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Lost Herondale

“The point wasn’t that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.”
― Cassandra Clare, Angels Twice Descending

“It was a lesson, Magnus thought, to love while you could, love what was fragile and beautiful and imperiled. Nobody was guaranteed forever.”
― Cassandra Clare, Born to Endless Night

“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Lost Herondale

“Simon, don’t you think I’m scared of that too? You’re not the only one on that ledge. If we jump, we jump together. We fall together.”
― Cassandra Clare, Pale Kings and Princes

“Father nevver once looked at any woman the way he looked at Mother, with joy and thanksgiving, as if she was a living wish, granted past all hope.”
― Cassandra Clare, Nothing but Shadows

“Magnus believed that many old things were creations of enduring beauty. The pyramids. Michelangelo’s David. Versailles. Magnus himself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Born to Endless Night

“You couldn't know how much going away had changed you until you tried to go home.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Lost Herondale

“How is Ty? There is nothing wrong with Ty, but he is different, and the Clave hates all that is different. They will try to punish him, for being who he is. They would punish a star for burning.”
― Cassandra Clare, Bitter of Tongue

“You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Every single thing I did, you stood behind me,” I say. “If I’m turning into a monster, then so are you.”
“Love blinds.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“It isn't hard to let people die when their deaths give life to something else.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“There was something else that Hall used to say–that life itself was uncertainty, and the only remedy to its madness was to act boldly.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Wayfarer

“The worth is in the fight, not the conquest. Do not give up.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Wayfarer

“WINIFRED—WHO, IT SEEMED, HAD BEEN LISTENING AT THE DOOR—handed her a pair of shoes as soon as Etta emerged from the office. By the time Henry appeared at her side, a light coat over his suit jacket, the woman had faded back down the shadows of the hallway like the ghoul she was.
“No coat?” he asked, eyeing her up and down.
“Darling Winifred didn’t think I needed one, apparently,” she said. One of the guards chuckled into his fist, earning him a swat across the chest from the other.
Henry looked mildly startled. “Your mother called her that as well.”
“My mother met that woman and they both survived it?”
One corner of his mouth twitched, and the parts of her that were still raw, and awkward—and, worse—unsure, eased. “I never said they emerged unscathed.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Wayfarer

“My good mood felt like an endangered species.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“Wait —” Sam said. “Have you seen Isabel yet?”
My fingers still felt the shape of her. “Da. We embraced.
Angels sang, Sam. Those fat ones. Cherubs. Cherubim. I
must go.”
“Don’t bite people.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“And suddenly I was just eaten by nostalgia, for a past that wasn't mine.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“Luck,” Jeremy scoffed softly. “There’s no luck.”
“Then what?”
“Your feet take you where you need to be.”
I thought about this. “My feet have taken me to some pretty rough places.”
“That was your dick, dragging your feet along with.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“I tried to think of what an actual human would say in this situation. I asked, “Are you okay?” Sofia began to cry, which was exactly why I generally tried to avoid being a human.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can’t hear it, you can feel it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner