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“She discovered the pure joy of reading for pleasure, and was rarely - if ever - seen without a book in her hand. Even in slumber, she was often to be found clutching a volume with one slender hand, her fingers wrapped right around its spine, as if she feared to wake into a world where all books had been forgotten and removed, and this book might become the last she had to linger over.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“Let us speak, for a moment, on the matter of sisters. They can be enemies to fight or companions to lean upon: they can, at times, be strangers. They are not required to be friends, or to have involvement in one another's lives, or to be anything more than strangers united by the circumstances of their birth. Still, there is a magic in the word "sister," a magic which speaks of shared roots and hence shared branches, of a certain ease that is always to be pursued, if not always to be found.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“It's a terrible thing, to be found.”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found

“You look too pretty to be useful."

"Truer words were never spoken.”
― Richelle Mead, Bloodlines

“No one should have to sit and suffer and pretend to be someone they’re not because it’s easier, or because no one wants to help them fix it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“I never wanted to be a hero, but that doesn't mean I'll let you turn me into a villain”
― Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go

“Heroism is addictive. Maybe that's why it sounds so much like heroin. [Sumi Ohashi]”
― Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go

“Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-"
"You invented the Internet?"
It was my idea, Martha said.
Rats are delicious, George said.
"It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Being different isn't a bad thing. I means that you are brave enough to be yourself.”
― Luna Lovegood

“You're just as sane as I am.”
― Luna Lovegood

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
― Jane Austen

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“You are my life now.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy?”
― Stephanie Meyer, Twilight