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“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The man was younger, around Hugo’s age. He was coldly handsome, though his handlebar mustache made Wallace want to punch him in the face.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“When the whole world hurts, you bite it. Don't you?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

“His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“They say all art—whether books, music, or visual—is a reaction to other art.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“Where I come from we call what you’re feeling The Black Tide. It will pass. Tides, by their nature, come and go.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“Her name translated as "Survivor," but she told me she didn't like it much. I asked her why and she said because she is a female and all females are survivors so it was massively redundant.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“You know so much, Onida."
"I have nine brains—which never stop growing—three hearts, and I can regenerate my arms; but mostly, it's because I'm female." Female. Well, shit. Admittedly, I had limited knowledge of them, but they had always seemed omniscient and formidable to me.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“A creature can be heartbreakingly powerful and loving while also being a destroyer of worlds.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“So there we were. A rejected crow with an identity crisis partnering a bloodhound with the IQ of boiled pudding. We were perhaps the most pathetic excuse for an attempted murder on the face of the earth.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“Butterflies live short lives because they have mastered the art of living. They serve to pass it on with luminous bursts of joy, bright flickers from the other side.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“It's terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches off into a new world.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe