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“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Why is it that the relative whiteness of my skin has given me this chance at privilege? It seems incomprehensible, but it is thus.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“Segregation is really just slavery by another name, lynching is one of its proponents’ weapons, and we would be subjected to segregation and threatened by lynchings if we lived as colored anywhere in this country.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“Even the thought of his name wounds me afresh.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“Three of Mr. Morgan’s four mistresses are in town for the season, and he’s assigned me the unpleasant task of keeping them separate when their visits overlap—which has occurred on three distinct occasions today, and it’s just approaching noon.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“How black people must have two sets of eyes all the time, two fields of vision that are totally incongruent because they have to be mindful of how they see themselves, but that is most likely completely the opposite of how the world sees them. So it’s like walking this balancing act,” he goes on.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“Could our society change such that we would walk among each other, live with each other, and perhaps even love one another, no matter the color of our skin?”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“Monsters cannot become men,” she whispered instead, and the darkness hummed its agreement. He exhaled through parted lips, and his unhappiness only increased. “Of course. That was selfish of me.” That does not mean I cannot love a monster.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“I wasn’t born to fight.” “No,” Zafira agreed. “Neither of us were. We were not born to fight, but our cradles were built from struggles and hardship. Pens, swords, sticks—weapons shoved into our fists as soon as we’re old enough to grasp them. So we fight, because the world will cut our throats otherwise. We fight, because we won’t go down without one. Do you understand?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“she devoured his reactions the way a rose sought out sunlight.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Why?” she asked in a broken voice. “Why is everyone so eager to leave me?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Hades’s eyes glittered. “Come tomorrow. I’ll show you the way to the Underworld.” “It will have to be after class,” she said. “Class?” “I’m a student at New Athens University.” Hades looked at her curiously and nodded his head. “After…class, then.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Darkness

“Life is hard out there, Hades, and sometimes living it is penance enough. Mortals need hope, not threats of punishment.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Darkness

“It is important to me. I would rather explore your anger. I would hear your advice. I wish to understand your perspective.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Darkness

“You’re saying that”—Hades pointed to the mint plant—“is my assistant?” “Yes.” He didn’t look at the plant but at her. “And why is my assistant a plant, Persephone?” “Because”—She averted her eyes and admitted—“She upset me.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Darkness

“blurts out, “By the way, your hair is totally badass!” I know without looking that the curls springing out of my puff are wide-awake, reaching toward the sky in the night’s humidity. I bristle, because his tone is the one that feels less like a compliment and more like he’s happened upon a fun oddity—and that fun oddity is Black me with my Black hair. Wonderful.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“They hadn’t said what he’d died from, but I hoped it was gangrene of the dick.”
― K.F. Breene, A Ruin of Roses

“We need to talk about what you said last night.” “I hate it when people tell me that,” he replied. “It’s never good.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Death is like an old friend who pays a visit, sometimes when it’s least expected and other times when you’re waiting for her. It’s neither the first nor the last time she’ll pay a visit, but that doesn’t make any death less harsh or unforgiving.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“There are a lot of different people from various places that I haven’t met and know nothing about. That doesn’t mean it’s okay to make assumptions.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You are the foundation that helps me stand. You are my walls and my roof. My shelter. You are my home.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“I honestly couldn’t give a fig.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“The heart doesn’t care how long you may have with someone.” Kieran looked over at me, his eyes sheltered. “It just cares that you have the person for as long as you can.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“he’d learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and—as Citra had already discovered—the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Over these many years, I have observed both profound folly and breathtaking wisdom among humankind. They balance each other like dancers in the throes of a passionate tango. It is only when the brutality of the dance overwhelms the beauty that the future is threatened.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“The end doesn’t always justify the means, dear,” she said. “But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“Wh—what are you doing?” Remy stuttered even as her eyes moved to his sculpted, muscular torso. If the poison lake would not kill her, that body surely would.”
― A.K. Mulford, The High Mountain Court

“Some things simply made a person feel feminine; other things made a person feel masculine. Wasn’t that true of everyone regardless of gender? Or did binaries deny themselves the things that didn’t fit the mold?”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“Snipers must make themselves calm in order to succeed, and that is why women are good at sharpshooting. Because there is not a woman alive who has not learned how to eat rage in order to appear calm.”
― Kate Quinn, The Diamond Eye

“why does no one believe I might just be doing my job, not hopping in and out of bedrolls?” “Because men are worse gossips than old women, that’s why.”
― Kate Quinn, The Diamond Eye