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  • #1
    Jay Kristoff
    “You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”
    Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

  • #2
    Adelise M. Cullens
    “Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”
    Adelise M. Cullens, Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry

  • #3
    Betty  Smith
    “From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #4
    Margaret  Rogerson
    “I knew you talked to books. I didn't realize they listened.”
    Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

  • #5
    Tricia Levenseller
    “Waiting. Not waiting. One lover. A hundred lovers. There should be no judgement either way. A woman is not defined by what she does or doesn‘t do in the bedroom.”
    Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

  • #6
    Tricia Levenseller
    “Who in the world would steal and then not keep the riches for themselves? That’s just bad business.”
    Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

  • #7
    Tricia Levenseller
    “When fancy strikes, a man gets this notion in his mind that everything a woman does is for him.”
    Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We are all someone's monster.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #9
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #16
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
    "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
    "Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
    "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
    "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #17
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
    Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
    “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
    "You're a thief, Kaz."
    "Isn't that what I just said?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #25
    Leigh Bardugo
    “He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #26
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #27
    Leigh Bardugo
    I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #28
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #29
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I can hear the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you."
    "You... you can?"
    "It catches every time, like he's never seen you before.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #30
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
    "So?" said Kaz.
    "Well, usually it's just half the city.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom



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