“In fact, after that ride across Amaya, he still had blisters in all kinds of places where blisters shouldn’t be.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“The main lesson Rollan had learned in training was that Meilin was dangerous with a handkerchief.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“I’m less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let’s-Save-Erdas.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.”
― N.K. Jemisin, quote from The Fifth Season
“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask.
"Maybe that's why we dislike them," she says. "The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
“Damn girl. Is your daddy a thief?"
"What?"
I'd never actually met my dad. Maybe he was. All I knew was that he'd been mortal. Hopefully, he'd been nothing like these two ass-hats. Ren flexed his nonexistent muscles, smiling.
"Well, then who stole those diamonds and put them in your eyes?"
"Wow.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Daimon
“To rule forever," continues the Chinaman, later, "it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People,-- to create thus a Distinction betwixt 'em,-- 'tis the first stroke.-- All else will follow as if predestin'd, unto War and Devastation.”
― Thomas Pynchon, quote from Mason & Dixon
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