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  • #1
    Alix E. Harrow
    “I hope to every god you have the guts to do what needs doing. I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through. I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics. I hope you will run through every open Door, and tell stories when you return.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #2
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #3
    John Green
    “You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #4
    Rick Riordan
    “It’s been my observation" I said, “that you humans are more than the sum of your history. You can choose how much of your ancestry to embrace. You can overcome the expectations of your family and your society. What you cannot do, and should never do, is try to be someone other than yourself–Piper McLean.”
    Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

  • #5
    Julie C. Dao
    “All my life, I've thought myself weaker than others. But everyone has to work at being brave, don't they? Day after day, in their own way.”
    Julie C. Dao, Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix

  • #6
    Madeline Miller
    “Circe, he says, it will be all right.

    It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what is means to be alive.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #7
    Alix E. Harrow
    “May she wander but always return home, may all her words be written true, may every door lie open before her.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #8
    Julie C. Dao
    “But then again, we all have dreams within reach, Jade thought. We have only to shape them to fit ourselves.”
    Julie C. Dao, Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix

  • #9
    Seanan McGuire
    “Hummingbird girl, running on caffeine and borrowed energy. He’s seen what happens when that energy runs out. He never wants to see it again.”
    Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

  • #10
    Alix E. Harrow
    “Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #11
    Amal El-Mohtar
    “Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.”
    Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

  • #12
    Amal El-Mohtar
    “Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that’s what I have instead of friends.”
    Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

  • #13
    Amal El-Mohtar
    “I want to meet you in every place I have loved.”
    Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

  • #14
    Amal El-Mohtar
    “At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.”
    Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

  • #15
    Madeline Miller
    “That is — your friend?"
    "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #16
    Seanan McGuire
    “We have always held the land above the one who rules it.”
    Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields

  • #17
    Seanan McGuire
    “Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens.”
    Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields



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