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  • #1
    Margaret  Rogerson
    “She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”
    Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

  • #2
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #6
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #7
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #9
    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #10
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

  • #11
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #14
    Madeline Miller
    “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

  • #15
    Holly Black
    “By you, I am forever undone.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #16
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You are my salvation, Feyre.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #17
    Margaret  Rogerson
    “...there is always more than one way to see the world. Those who claim otherwise would have you dwell forever in the dark.”
    Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

  • #18
    Jennifer Saint
    “I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
    Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

  • #19
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #20
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #21
    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #22
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    Rumi

  • #23
    Heather Dixon Wallwork
    “For when the world was darkest, I remembered you.”
    Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

  • #24
    Ocean Vuong
    “Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #25
    Ocean Vuong
    “& remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
    Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

  • #26
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

  • #27
    Audre Lorde
    “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #28
    Madeline Miller
    “There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #29
    Rachel Gillig
    “There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster they became.”
    Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

  • #30
    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights



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