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  • #1
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #2
    Rachel Hartman
    “Light requires the high relief of darkness. Seeds sprout in darkness. Children are conceived, and the sun reborn. Death returns us to it. Darkness is not ... it’s not wrong.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #3
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #4
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #5
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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

  • #6
    Rachel Hartman
    All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing.
    You are nothing.

    It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #7
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #9
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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

  • #10
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #11
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
    "You're a thief, Kaz."
    "Isn't that what I just said?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #12
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, "is that it makes us weak.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We are all someone's monster.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #16
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #17
    Leigh Bardugo
    “He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #18
    Rachel Hartman
    “What was rage but a cover for some secret fragility, some sorrow?”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #19
    Rachel Hartman
    “I gave you two choices as a test: there are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No Mourners.
    No Funerals.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #22
    Rachel Hartman
    “The words bounced off her like a stone skipping over the surface of a lake.
    A stone may skip a long way, but it always sinks eventually.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #23
    Rachel Hartman
    “I’m not saying don’t run—or walk, as you say—only that it sounds incomplete, as a life’s philosophy. I meant to prompt you to think further. What do you do when you get there?”
    “You don’t get there. You’re on the Road, and the Road goes ever on and on.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #24
    Rachel Hartman
    Get on with you, mooning about, wallowing in gooey sentiment. It doesn’t change anything.
    “It does, though,” said Tess, a blaze igniting in her heart, a blue flame. “Maybe the world isn’t really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.”
    Not just in it. She was it.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #25
    Rachel Hartman
    “You were naming my life, which is similar but not identical to saving.
    We name something to make it real, to give it meaning. You can name my life and I might still die. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #26
    Rachel Hartman
    “This clod is like my heart
    I smash it all apart
    I had one goal, to keep it whole
    But that’s beyond my art”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #27
    Rachel Hartman
    “From some angles, up is toward the earth and down toward the sky, and everything—people, horses, cathedrals, dreams—is suspended over the ceaseless void, barely hanging on.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #28
    Rachel Hartman
    “You won’t like hearing this, but sometimes you can’t fix what you broke. Sometimes you just have to live with it.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #29
    Rachel Hartman
    “What if opposites could be combined and transcended, paradox embraced, a whole life lived in contradictory case?”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.”
    George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood



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