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“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“Armageddon is averted by small actions. That’s the way it was. That’s the way it always has to be.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

“The circus arrives without warning.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Unless there are words and ways waiting among the children’s verses; power passes in secret from mother to daughter, like swords disguised as sewing needles.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“It is not too far. East of the sun, west of the moon.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“But she understood, even lies could be true, if you knew how to listen.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?”
― Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems

“All day long, she realized, she had been feeling strange, and seeing strangely, as though everything was already long in the past, made more vivid by posthumous ironies she could not quite grasp.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Be bloody bold and resolute.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I have survived the worst things I thought possible…Now I must make some shape out of the unimaginable after, measure my new life by its margins and limits.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“Not every story leaves the teller unharmed.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“Maybe it's that I find the idea comforting...that thousands of years after you're gone...is when you really live. That your echo is louder than your voice is.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I try on the absurdly skinny threadbare designer jeans and almost begin to sob when I can button them. I have come full circle. Or maybe I’m the snake that perpetually eats itself, but here’s what I mean: I no longer have my life stretched before me, where anything is possible. I am facing joint replacement, mental decline, the shriveling, wilting decay of old age. But I face it wearing the exact same jeans I wore when I was seventeen and felt electricity flash and slide along my skin, when I burned inside to make something of myself, something big, something loud and powerful and strong, something you couldn’t look away from or ignore.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Toil & Trouble: A Memoir

“In the glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast’s card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

“The thing with feelings is they pass. Hearts aren’t designed to feel anything too intensely for too long, be it joy, sorrow, or anger. Everything passes in time. All colors fade.”
― Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“She thought survival was a selfish thing, a circle drawn tight around your heart. She thought the more people you let inside that circle the more ways the world had to hurt you, the more ways you could fail them and be failed in turn. But what if it’s the opposite, and there are more people to catch you when you fall? What if there’s an invisible tipping point somewhere along the way when one becomes three becomes infinite, when there are so many of you inside that circle that you become hydra-headed, invincible?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang

“Most people have no capacity for comprehending true darkness, and then they try to fix it anyway.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“As her photo burned, I thought: even oblivion is a kindness.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“She knows what’s coming better than her sisters. She knows that history digs a shallow grave, and that the past is always waiting to rise again.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“My first false speaking
Was this upon myself.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“I am too much in the sun.”
― William Shakespeare

“Some people go missing because they want to; some go missing because they’re taken. And then there are the others—those who go missing because they fall through a gap somewhere and can’t claw their way back.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“This place hums to the tune of debauchery. This city is filthy and deep in the thrall of unending sin, so saturated with the kiss of decadence that the sky threatens to buckle and crush all those living vivaciously beneath it in punishment.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights