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  • #31
    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: love
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    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #33
    Madeline Miller
    “I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
    "Go," she says. "He waits for you."

    In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, afterlife, death, greek-mythology, grief, love, mythology, patroclus
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  • #34
    Madeline Miller
    “I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
    If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
    As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
    “Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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  • #35
    Madeline Miller
    “He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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  • #36
    Madeline Miller
    “Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, dead, hero, patrochilles, patroclus
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  • #37
    “The fact is, the people I want to protect are protecting me. And so I keep finding more things that are different, and I keep on going. Even if they're small, I take one step at a time.”
    ― Natsume Yuujinchou
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  • #38
    Madeline Miller
    “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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  • #39
    “I've been through so many meetings and partings. They were like a heavy secret, but when I started to talk about them, they seemed to sparkle... I couldn't put them into words.”
    ― Natsume Yuujinchou
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  • #40
    Cassandra Clare
    “We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
    tags: clary-fray, fear, hope, jem-carstairs, life, loss, love, memory, shadowhunters, the-infernal-devices
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  • #41
    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
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  • #42
    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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  • #43
    Suzanne Collins
    “Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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  • #44
    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: crying, laughter, options
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  • #45
    Veronica Roth
    “I am a Shotet. I am sharp as broken glass, and just as fragile. I tell lies better than I tell truths. I see all of the galaxy and never catch a glimpse of it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
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  • #46
    Veronica Roth
    “I know what it is to become something you hate. I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
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  • #47
    Cassandra Clare
    “As we all have an infinite capacity to make mistakes, we all have an infinite capacity for forgiveness.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness
    tags: cassandra-clare, cristina-blackthorn, queen-of-air-and-darkness, the-dark-artifices
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  • #48
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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  • #49
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The game is afoot.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: shakespearean, sherlock-holmes
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  • #50
    Tomi Adeyemi
    “Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine.”
    ― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
    tags: fantasy, fantasy-fiction
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  • #51
    Tomi Adeyemi
    “We are all children of blood and bone.
    All instruments of vengeance and virtue.”
    ― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
    tags: humanity
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  • #52
    Tomi Adeyemi
    “I’m the very monster I hunt.”
    ― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
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  • #53
    Victoria Aveyard
    “Rise, red as the dawn.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
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  • #54
    Victoria Aveyard
    “I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
    tags: balance, balance-of-power
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  • #55
    Rachel E. Carter
    “You don't become the best if you aren't willing to stick your hand in the fire.”
    ― Rachel E. Carter, First Year
    tags: hard-work, the-black-mage
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  • #56
    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
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  • #57
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: six-of-crows
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  • #58
    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
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  • #59
    Holly Black
    “Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
    “No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
    "I can't.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: hideous, hideous-beauty, love, romance
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  • #60
    Ann Liang
    “Streaks of dark, wet pink and glistening blue seep through the sky like spilled watercolor, while floating lanterns rise gently over the horizon like ghosts. A soft breeze drifts over my skin, carrying with it the fragrance of chrysanthemums and fresh-baked pastries from the snack stalls below.
    Then there’s Henry.”
    ― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun
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