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“Books, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people’s, and a book’s heart could be broken: she had seen it happen before.”
― Margaret Rogerson

“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“bookshelves are a journey for your eyes. To remember the places you’ve experienced, the characters you’ve encountered. The laughter and heartache each writer has given you is incalculable.”
― Calia Read, King of the South

“Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I believed in the spirits that lived in everything around me: the water, the birds, the air itself. It was all alive and beautiful and just as divine as any invisible god.”
― Mara Rutherford, Crown of Coral and Pearl

“Usually, the coldest of days and nights were my favorite. The perfect time to curl up before a roaring fire and sip tea with a book or guzzle wine with a lover.”
― Ella Fields, A King so Cold

“He was a walking advertisement for patriotism and privilege, rolled into one messed-up little ball of well-hidden evil.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Rage and Ruin

“Something thumped in front of me. A bottle of wine. “It’s fine if you drink directly from it,” was all Mor said.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Air above me, earth below me, fire within me, water surround me…”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us

“Sometimes,” he murmurs, “things need first to be ruined in order to then be remade.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glint

“Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your life based on injustice and lies.”
― Laurie Forest, The Black Witch

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Good thing she had firmly decided not to fall in love with him. He’d have far too much power over her if she did.”
― Kay L Moody, Castle of Bitter Thorn

“It was the air, the earth, the mists, our blood, the beating of our thundering hearts, and the changing skies.”
― Ella Fields, The Stray Prince

“This stupid House wouldn’t give me wine.” “I figured that would be the only motivator to make you risk ten thousand stairs.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“The first time I saw that look on your face, you were still human. Still human, and I nearly went to my knees before you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“I cannot survive without reading.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“People see what they expect to see,” he says sharply. “Through a filter of their own hatred and prejudice.”
― Laurie Forest, The Black Witch

“We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The thing about being underwater is that it’s not—quiet, I mean. I can’t hear what’s happening above the surface, but when I’m totally submerged, I hear the water. I hear its song, the way it sings to itself and anybody who comes below to hear it. I love the way it never changes, and the way I’m always different when I’m here.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water

“She was right, and he knew it. But in his heart, he knew that even if he never saw her again for the rest of his life, it would never be over. She would always be his queen.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Traitor Queen

“Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game