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“Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .”
― Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

“The voice was at once the night and the dawn and the stars and the earth, and every inch of my body calmed at the primal dominance in it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they’re going so much that it’s worth it. Maybe they’ll keep coming back, until there’s only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday—if it keeps coming back often enough—another star will find it again.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“A man attacked me, choked me, bit my neck, burned my hand, then stuffed my shirt full of money and put a dumpster on me and now I can see heat and hear fog. I’ve won Satan’s lottery.”
― Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends

“Truth is deadly. Truth is freedom. Truth can break and mend and bind.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I do not understand “damned.” You are. And because you are, you can walk where you will, into peace, oblivion, or pits of fire, but you will always choose.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“It was funny, Grey thought. Not funny ha-ha but funny strange, the whole idea of time. He’d thought it was one thing but it was actually another. It wasn’t a line but a circle, and even more; it was a circle made of circles made of circles, each lying on top of the other, so that every moment was next to every other moment, all at once. And once you knew this you couldn’t unknow it. Such as now, the way he could see events as they were about to unfold, as if they’d already happened, because in a way they had.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage