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“A decade later, a fifteen-year-old Hiroshi would become known as the youngest swordsman ever to master the Whispering Blade. What the world would never know, was that he was the second youngest.”
― M.L. Wang

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Kiss me where I’m not hurt.”
― F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi

“This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. I suppose both are a sort of gentle violence, putting down in ink what scorches the air when spoken aloud.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

“I am the force of creation, I am
the end and the beginning. The world is a painting and I hold the brush. I
am a god.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“He loves her.
Of this he’s certain.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

“Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
― Frida Kahlo

“There is nothing more precious than laughter”
― Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

“We only fail when we stop trying.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy

“It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy

“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“She was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken. Fitting in was not an option.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“One cannot be brave who has no fear.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“One should never save cake for later when it can be eaten now.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows