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“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“But if you hunger, I swell. You have me watching birds, and though I don't know their names like you know them, I have seen small bright singers puff before they trill. That's how I feel. I sing myself out to you, and my talons clutch the branch, and I am wrung out until your next letter gives me breath, fills me to bursting.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“And this letter is a knife at my neck, if cutting's what you want”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I feel something shift in my gut. A feeling I ain’t had since I rose up to help save the stable last year. A feeling of having your own posse and riding into battle. Not giving up. Being seen.”
― G. Neri, Polo Cowboy

“If you gonna do somethin’, go all in.”
― G. Neri, Polo Cowboy

“What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?'
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Tell me that we’ll get through tomorrow. Tell me that we’ll survive the war. Tell me—” She swallowed hard. “Tell me that even if I lead us all to ruin, we’ll burn in hell together.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Let’s go rattle the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Dear gods, it was the man's spine.
Kieran's eyes met mine. "He's a little angry.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“I snapped forward, grabbing the edge of a mask. I yanked hard. Rope snapped. The mask slipped free--
"Oh, my gods!" I shrieked as I staggered back.
The thing didn't have a face.
Not really. There was no nose. No mouth. Just thin, black slits where eyes should've been. Everything else was smooth, thin, pale flesh.
I would never unsee this.
"Take it back! Here." I flung the bronze mask back at the thing. The metal bounced off its chest and hit the ground. It cocked its head to the side.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“I will not replace the veil you loathed with a crown you hate...if you decide you want to take what is yours, claim the throne, I will set this entire kingdom on fire and watch it burn if that ensures that the crown sits on your head.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“Only the King and Queen can stop war from happening now."
"Then stop it," I exclaimed.
Slowly, she turned her head to me, and the next breath I took hitched in my throat. I knew what she was saying without vocalizing the words--I knew what she meant when she continued saying that her generation wouldn't give the Ascended the chance to negotiate--that neither she nor King Valyn could do that again.
Whereas Casteel and I could.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“I'm not foolish enough to not feel fear when I know that any of you could kill me before I even have a chance to take my next breath. But fearing what you're capable of doesn't mean I fear you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Your concern warms the same heart you've so grievously wounded.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Anyway, Casteel stopped by when he was looking for my father and asked if I had anything that would be deserving of a Princess to wear to her wedding. I told him no. That all I owned was deserving of a Queen,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I imagine most brides don't think of sieges on the night of their weddings.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Gods,” he breathed, and one hand returned to my cheek. “You don’t have to ask me twice, Princess, and you never have to beg.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It ain’t stealing if it’s yours…it’s called cowboy justice.”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy

“Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“How convenient that your shield vanished right as that thing waddled up. What an excellent opportunity for a magic lesson. What if it had gone wrong?"

"Why do you think the hole opened up by the witch?”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent—namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms. The colors of my head scarf or my father's tie were symbols of Western decadence and imperialist tendencies. Not wearing a beard, shaking hands with members of the opposite sex, clapping or whistling in public meetings, were likewise considered Western and therefore decadent, part of the plot by imperialists to bring down our culture.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.”
― Azar Nafisi

“The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”
― Azar Nafisi

“Such an act [testifying for an accused prison guard of the Shah's regime] can only be accomplished by someone who is engrossed in literature, has learned that every individual has different dimensions to his personality.... Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and understand the other's different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them.... If we have learned this one lesson from Dr. A our society would have been in a much better shape today.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Fiction was not a panacea, but it did offer us a critical way of appraising and grasping the world—not just our world but that other world that had become the object of our desires.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books