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“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

“He felt both invincible and utterly at her mercy when she looked at him like that. He’d raze cities to the ground, would fill oceans with the blood of her enemies, would set the world on fire and dance with her in the ashes to keep that smile on her face.”
― Stacy Jones, Through Illusions and Deceit

“It always did, and it never seemed to lessen, even though I was a grown ass woman now. But certain things, like a mother’s love, just can’t really be found elsewhere. And when it’s missing from your life, it feels like a giant void in your chest. I always think I’ve gotten used to it, come to terms with it, then something else happens. That wound opens afresh, cutting deep like it always does, bleeding everywhere.”
― Amanda Richardson, Savage Hate

“No one can be firmly marked anything, baby. No one’s all good, and no one’s all bad. Everyone has different dimensions to their personality, and everyone has different things that drive them. People can change, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. A person’s nature is a fluid thing.”
― Suzanne Wright, Burn

“Men think they’re so smart. Some are. But most women aren’t dumb. We have the ultimate intelligence—survival.”
― Kelly Finley, Tempt Her

“Madmen claimed God in their vicious righteousness, stirring fear and hate to build their own armies to purge what was “other.”
― Nora Roberts, Of Blood and Bone

“Bullshit. The truth is you don’t want to. It makes you feel good to blame yourself. You know why?” Kira shook her head, mute. “Because it gives you a sense of control. The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can’t change.” Falconi paused, his eyes hard and glittering. “Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn’t do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you’ll never be able to fully recover.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“The ship pretended to clear his throat. “Fine. Hear me now. The Lord of Empty Spaces protect us as we venture forth to fight our foes. Guide our hands—and our thoughts—and guide our weapons that we may work our will upon these perversions of peace. Let daring be our shield and righteous fury be our sword, and may our enemies flee at the sight of those who defend the defenseless, and may we stand unbowed and unbroken in the face of evil. Today is the Day of Wrath, and we are the instruments of our species’ retribution. Deo duce, ferro comitante. Amen.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Yet despite the disappointment, some part of us doesn’t blame the Society. We blame Gamma, who receives the gifts. A man’s only got so much hate, I suppose. And when he sees his children’s ribs through their shirts while his neighbors line their bellies with meat stews and sugared tarts, it’s hard for him to hate anyone but them. You think they’d share. They don’t.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Her jaw flexes. “I’m sorry. It’s just … we are in chains, Darrow. We are not colonists. Well, sure we are. But it’s more on the spot to call us slaves. We beg for food. Beg for Laurels like dogs begging for scraps from the master’s table.” “You may be a slave,” I snap. “But I am not. I don’t beg. I earn. I am a Helldiver. I was born to sacrifice, to make Mars ready for man. There’s a nobility to obedience.…” She throws up her hands. “A talking puppet, are you? Spitting out their bloodydamn lines. Your father had the right of it. He might not have been perfect, but he had the right of it.” She grabs a clump of grass and tears it out of the ground. It seems like some sort of sacrilege.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Look,” he told them, his arms extended as he stood between the two red-faced boys, “You’re both right and you’re both wrong. We’re all screwed, and I haven’t pooped in like three days, so can we all just agree that helping me find some fiber should be our top priority?”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“Not everyone is meant to thrive, Ilmari. Some of us are born merely to endure.”
― Emily Rath, Pucking Wild

“You’ve been invisible before.” I nod. “Tell me when.” “All my life,” I whisper, breaking our gaze to stare out at the blank expanse of dark ocean instead. “It’s all I’ve ever known. Everyone who was meant to love me, people I needed to care, people I needed to protect me…they all closed their eyes.” My eyes close too as a tear slips down my cheek. “They didn’t see me, Ryan. I was just a child, and they didn’t care.”
― Emily Rath, Pucking Wild

“It was crazy how he understood me. How he was so willing to be this steady, perfect force for me.”
― C.R. Jane, The Pucking Wrong Number

“I never want you to let me go,” I told him, staring into those grass green eyes, and seeing my whole future in their depths. “I kept telling you I couldn’t find anything wrong with you even as I fell apart over and over and you were there for me,” I whispered. “And then when I found out everything…I immediately wasn’t there for you. And it’s taken me all this time to realize…there’s still nothing wrong with you. I think you’re perfect just as you are, Ari Lancaster. Perfect for me.”
― C.R. Jane, The Pucking Wrong Guy

“Cain nudged Remington’s shoulder with the toe of his shoe. “Wake up. You’re going to want to get started on living this down as soon as possible.”
― C.R. Jane, Make Me Lie

“People always wanted to do that, tell you that everything would be alright. But what if we were actually fucking honest with one another? What if we fucking told the guy whose wife was cheating on him that, in fact, everything would not be alright? That he would miss her and hate her for the rest of his life. What if we told the girl that her mother would never actually love her because she was too selfish to see past herself? What if the world would just tell me that I would always be messed up from what had happened that night? Wouldn’t that save the world a whole lot of useless hopes and dreams if we simply started telling it like it was? “I”
― C.R. Jane, Make Me Burn

“Even living in Colorado, I’d never actually gotten out on a ski slope. Mostly because I was more of a spiked hot chocolate and fuzzy socks by the fire kind of gal and less of a “Hey, let’s hurl ourselves down the side of a cliff on slippery toothpicks” one.”
― Lucy Score, By a Thread

“You’re saying it’s not only subconsciously instinctive for him to hold back, he likely wouldn’t make any conscious attempt to let me close in even the most basic way,”
― Suzanne Wright, The Pact

“You say I fixate on words, and you’re right. Yet, I’m here, wondering why I can’t put my feelings into words, thinking that love is too inadequate a description, and I realized it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because I’m not alone. I don’t need words to keep me company. Falling in love with you is like diving blindly into a book, not knowing it’s destined to be my favorite. Whatever’s more than love, I feel it for you. I am only ever going to be in love with you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Devious Lies

“What do you suppose," Aedion breathed, staring into the darkness, "the people on other continents, across all those seas, think of us? Do you think they hate us or pity us for what we do to each other? Perhaps it's worse. But to do what I have to do, to get through it... I have to believe it's better. Somewhere, it's better than this."

Chaol had no answer.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Two goddesses walk hand in hand with Aelin. More than that, Mala and Deanna have watched over her the entirety of her life. But perhaps it wasn’t watching. Perhaps it was … shaping. So they might one day unleash her, too. And I wonder if the gods have weighed the costs of that storm. And deemed the casualties worth it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Any free time is yours to spend as you wish. In the House.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“She had failed in every aspect of her life. Utterly and spectacularly failed, and keeping others from realizing it had been her main purpose. She had shut them out, had shut herself out, because the weight of all those failures threatened to shatter her into a thousand pieces.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“Hunt’s eyes sharpened into lethal focus. “And Bryce Quinlan—after the three days are up?” Isaiah frowned at the table, the crumpled chair. “If she’s smart, she’ll lie low and not attract the attention of any other powerful immortals for the rest of her life.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Her tingling fingers brushed over the titles. On the Divine Number; The Walking Dead; The Book of Breathings; The Queen with Many Faces …”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Some truths do nothing but destroy and decay what they do not obliterate. Truths do not always set one free. Only a fool who has spent their entire life being fed lies believes that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“A crucial part of their all-encompassing control is creating a rift between mortals who have and mortals who have not.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“So, those who barely have enough to survive, turn their anger towards those who have more than they could ever need. And never towards the Ascended.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I used to tell myself that what was done to me didn’t matter because I’d processed it. Dealt with that shit. But telling myself that proved I hadn’t really dealt with it. Because what I experienced will always matter in some way—sometimes, insignificantly and barely noticeable, and other times, it can ruin your entire fucking day. But that’s okay. And I mean that. Because saying someone chooses to live in the past, rehashing bad shit done to them, is bullshit. You can’t choose that. Things inside you? Parts of your mind and body that you don’t control decide that. And it took a hell of a long time for me to learn that what I can control is how I act in response to those memories—to those emotional wounds. How I treat myself. How I treat others because of it. It’s not as simple as saying that. I know. Nothing is simple.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Soul of Ash and Blood