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“In between the pages, I'm an emperor. An adventurer. A warrior and a wanderer. In between the pages I'm not myself-and more myself than in any other place on earth.”
― Jay Kristoff, LIFEL1K3

“We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“They were monsters!" Rin shrieked. "They were not human!"

"Have you ever considered" he said slowly "that that was exactly what they thought of us?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Great danger is always associated with great power. The difference between the great and the mediocre is that the great are willing to take the risk.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“You might get only one shot. So shoot. You know who said that?"
The rifle clatters to the bloody floor.
"Hanna FUCKING Donnelly. That's who.”
― Jay Kristoff, Gemina

“Now, children, watch closely. Hold your breath. Listen. And I will show you the components of calamity.”
― Jay Kristoff, Gemina

“Your past doesn't make calls on your future. It doesn't matter who you were. Only who you are.”
― Jay Kristoff, LIFEL1K3

“It's simple to love someone on the days that are easy. But you find out what your love is made of on the days that are hard.”
― Jay Kristoff, LIFEL1K3

“None of us are perfect. Not people,
not corporations. But we have the
opportunity to determine our fates day
by day, hour by hour, minute by minute,
with the choices we make and the actions
we take.”
― Jay Kristoff, Obsidio

“Before this moment, I have never wished to be something other than what I am.
Never felt so keenly the lack of hands with which to touch, the lack of arms with which to hold.
Why did they give me this sense of self? Why allow me the intellect by which to measure this complete inadequacy? I would rather be numb than stand here in the light of a sun that can never chase the chill away”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Wonderfully noble. Beautifully human. Tragically stupid.”
― Amie Kaufman

“Nearly every battle people face is in their heads. If you think you can't do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Death has a terrible habit of cutting straight through every careful line you’ve drawn between your present and your future.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“But sometimes, you find yourself standing in exactly the right position, wielding exactly the right weapon to hit back. So I hit. I hit fast and hard and furious...And in spite of everything, I’d do it all over again.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“Why would anyone give up the perfect fantasy reality just because they have to give up their freedom? What’s the point of freedom if you’re just living in a miserable reality?”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“I don’t realize it until I speak it. And it’s different from the times I’ve said it before, or the way I’ve hoped it, as if dreaming something enough could birth it into being. I know it now with a certainty that has fitted into the lost core at the heart of me, as hard and angular as my hope was soft and shimmering. The King will not have me.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Magic, at its heart, starts with sacrifice. You have to give up something to get something, and because magic is big, with all that it allows you access to, what you give up has to be big. It has to be meaningful.”
― Kat Howard, An Unkindness of Magicians

“But there was a type of terror that didn’t care about reality, a fear that lived in secret places, and it clawed at her soft insides.”
― Kat Howard, An Unkindness of Magicians

“It was the beginning, and all would be different until it was time for the world to be remade again.”
― Kat Howard, An Unkindness of Magicians

“This tiny moment. In between the time you decide to pull a trigger and the time death arrives. There's just you and it and everything you're about to take away. It's too big. It goes forever.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“The traces of worry, sorrow, fear, all of them smoothed over as she slips into the code, the network, the world where she doesn’t need a pair of legs to run. She lets loose her defenses, the spider god at her back spewing one million glittering minions onto her datawalls, defending their mistress’s layer with swords and shields of ones and zeros.”
― Amie Kaufman

“Why not believe, Syra? If in faith you risk nothing, but through faithlessness, you risk everything?”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“And yet, as I watch them through the palmpad I cannot help but wonder: if the desire to see this place ripped to pieces/if the thought of saving all those lives and hopes and dreams... pales in comparison: to the desire to see her again/to the thought of seeing him again. I wonder.”
― Amie Kaufman

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay