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  • #1
    Angie Thomas
    “That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
    Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

  • #2
    Katja Millay
    “Sometimes it's easier to pretend nothing is wrong than to face the fact that everything is wrong, but you're powerless to do anything about it.”
    Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

  • #3
    Mindy McGinnis
    “But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.”
    Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

  • #4
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
    Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #5
    Mindy McGinnis
    “I live in a world where not being molested as a child is considered luck.”
    Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

  • #6
    Sarah J. Maas
    “My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #7
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #8
    Victoria Schwab
    “Mourning was its own kind of music—the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together.”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #9
    Victoria Schwab
    “I know it hurts," she said. "So make it worth the pain."
    "How?"
    "By not letting go," she said softly. "By holding on, to anger, to hope, or whatever it is that keeps you fighting."
    You, he thought.”
    V.E. Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #10
    Victoria Schwab
    “I didn't stop fighting," he said, the words so low he worried Kate wouldn't hear them, but she did. "I just got tired of losing. It's easier this way."

    "Of course it's easier," said Kate. "that doesn't mean it's right.”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #11
    Victoria Schwab
    “August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would have the same effect as pain or music? No, I must have missed that lesson."

    She stared at him, agape. "August, was that sarcasm?”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #12
    Victoria Schwab
    “Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #13
    Victoria Schwab
    “I am a man, not a movement,” he said. “But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #14
    Victoria Schwab
    “We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #15
    Victoria Schwab
    “A Corsai, a Malchai, and a Sunai walk into a bar—
    Everyone groaned, including August.”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #16
    Victoria Schwab
    “Everyone was made of sounds, and August had learned hers the first day they met.”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #17
    Victoria Schwab
    “Come out, come out, wherever you are,” she whispered. “Nice juicy human heart.”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #18
    Victoria Schwab
    “Kate had spent enough time hiding behind her own walls to know a barricade when she saw one.”
    Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

  • #19
    Victoria Schwab
    “It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #20
    Victoria Schwab
    “She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison?"
    He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life."
    "Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #21
    Victoria Schwab
    “He could be the monster if it kept others human.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #22
    Victoria Schwab
    “I read somewhere," said Kate, "that people are made of stardust."

    He dragged his eyes from the sky. "Really?"

    "Maybe that's what you're made of. Just like us."

    And despite everything, August smiled.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #23
    Victoria Schwab
    “Why did everyone have to ruin the quiet by asking questions? The truth was a disastrous thing.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #24
    Victoria Schwab
    “It hurts,” he whispered.
    “What does?” asked Kate.
    “Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.” Kate tipped her head back against the tub. “That’s life, August,” she said. “You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re monster or human. Living hurts.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #25
    Victoria Schwab
    “Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.
    Even if he could never be human.
    He wanted the chance to matter.
    He wanted to live.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #26
    Victoria Schwab
    “Why are there so many shadows in the world, Kate? Shouldn’t there be just as much light?”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #27
    Victoria Schwab
    “Listen to me,” he said, pulling off his coat. “You need to stay awake.”
    She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.
    He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. “What’s so funny?”
    “You’re a really shitty monster, August Flynn.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #28
    Victoria Schwab
    “He shrugged, and for a second they stood there, sizing each other up, the moment stretching, the gaze growing uncomfortable until his gray eyes finally broke free, escaping to the ground. Kate smiled, victorious. She gestured to the patch of pavement, the border of grass. “What brings you to my office?”

    He looked around, confused, as if he’d actually intruded. Then he looked up and said, “The view.”

    Kate flashed a crooked grin. “Oh really?”

    His face went red. “I didn’t mean you,” he said quickly. “I was talking about the trees.”

    “Wow,” she said dryly. “Thanks. How am I supposed to compete with pine and oak?”

    “I don’t know,” said Freddie, cocking his head. Stray dog again. “They’re pretty great.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #29
    Victoria Schwab
    “Why would you even want to be human? We’re fragile. We die.”
    “You also live. You don’t spend every day wondering why you exist,but don’t feel real, why you look human, but can’t be. You don’t do everything you can to be a good person only to have it constantly thrown in your face that you’re not a person at all.”
    Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

  • #30
    Angie Thomas
    “I can't change where I come from or what I've been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?”
    Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give



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