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“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“We don't need to be good. But let's try to be fair.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?
One piece at a time.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I raise a plastic glass. “To family.”
“And Faerieland,” says Taryn, raising hers.
“And pizza,” says Oak.
“And stories,” says Heather.
“And new beginnings,” says Vivi.
Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. “And scheming great schemes.”
To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“But magic was not always so linear. It was born from odium. From love. From revenge.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“Loving someone is dangerous. It gives you something to lose.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“The first time, he had wondered why she liked books so much, and if it had anything to do with why he liked spaceships. Because they could take you somewhere far, far away from here.”
― Marissa Meyer, Stars Above

“Those who cannot own their choices will always be mastered by fate.”
― Katy Rose Pool, There Will Come a Darkness

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Lila Bard knew in her bones that she was meant to be a pirate.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“You look more ready to storm a city than seduce a man.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“A life worth having is a life worth taking.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Scars are not shameful, not unless you let them be. If you do not wear them, they will wear you.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“One cannot be brave who has no fear.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“How can we expect people to change if we don't give them the chance to?”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“What exactly are we looking for?

Villains, doing villainous things.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“WE WERE ALL VILLAINS in the beginning.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades