“You‘re not a mess. You just kill by accident only. Bad luck. Can happen to anyone.”
#September2023

“Of course it‘s happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
#September2023

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
#September2023

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
#September2023

“If you want to know what a man‘s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
#August2023

“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies.”
#August2023

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
#August2023

“‘It is our choices, harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.‘”
#August2023

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
#July2023

“Because it‘s one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live.”
#July2023

“‘What if we go on,‘ he said, ‘only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?‘
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. ‘Then it is not the end.‘”
#June2023

“Question yourself, yes, but don‘t doubt yourself. There‘s a difference.”
#June2023

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else‘s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”
#May2023

“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
#May2023

“She was what all the dead are: whatever the living make them.”
#April2023

“‘Why are you crying?‘
‘Because,‘ she whispered, her voice shaking, ‘you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.‘”
#April2023

“I hate to point out the obvious, but here‘s this tiny bird that‘s been trying to get through a huge bulletproof glass wall. A totally impossible situation. You tell me it‘s been here every day pecking away persistently for ten minutes. Well, today the glass wall came down.”
#April2023

“Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
#April2023

“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”
#March2023

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
#February2023

“‘Because that is how one survives eternity,‘ I say, ‘or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.‘”
#February2023

“Amren put a hand above Nestas heart. ‘That‘s the key, isn‘t it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it…that‘s the most important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder.‘ She gestured to the stars zooming past. ‘The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.‘”
#February2023

“But if you stay, no part of this comm gets to decide that any part of this comm is expendable. No voting on who gets to be people.”
#February2023

“Let‘s start with the end of the world, why don‘t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.”
#January2023

“To the dreams that are answered, Rys.”
#January2023

“I lie down on my back and look up at the stars, thousands of white lights in a sea of darkness. Sometimes I‘m overwhelmed by it all, the vastness of this life, the absolute miracle it is that I exist in this moment in time. How much magic is out in the universe, stretching beyond what the eye can see, reaching distances the mind can‘t even comprehend?”
#January2023

“‘Time to ride, Dandelion.‘
‘Where to?‘
‘Isn‘t it all the same?‘
‘Yes, by and large. Let‘s go.‘”
#December2022

“Some people, given the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don‘t need much encouragement at all to become monsters.”
#December2022

“‘We won‘t manage to do much more than we‘re capable of,‘ he said more quietly and more warmly. ‘But we shall all do our best to make sure it won‘t be much less.‘”
#November2022

“All of you, you miss too much, looking down instead of out. A screen is no match for reality.”
#November2022

“That you understand how wrong it is to judge someone before you know their whole story.”
#November2022

“It‘s the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they‘re just as complicated as real life.”
#October2022

“It‘s a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it.”
#October2022

“In the forest of primeval
A school for Good and Evil
Twin towers like two heads
One for the pure
And one for the wicked
Try to escape, you‘ll always fail
The only way out is
Through a fairytale.”
#October2022

“‘Why would anyone trade a lifetime of talent for a few years of glory?‘ Luc‘s smile darkens. ‘Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because vision weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.‘ He leans close, twists a lock of her hair around one finger. ‘Because happiness is brief and history is lasting, and in the end,‘ he says, ‘everyone wants to be remembered.‘”
#October2022

“We must come to terms with the wounds of our past if we are to survive the future.”
#September2022

“‘The world I grew up in is gone, too,‘ I said quietly. ‘But that doesn‘t mean I‘m going to give up on it. Because if you give up—then what is there left to live for?‘“
#August2022

“If there‘s a feeling to home, it‘s this. A place where there are no secrets, where nothing stays buried: not the past and not yourself. Where you can be all the versions of you, see if all reflected back as you walk the same stairs, the same halls, the same rooms.”
#August2022

“She had dozens, even hundreds, of friends, but not one single person knew all of the pieces of her.”
#August2022

“She had been both good and wicked and everything in between. She had been both at once, too, until it was too hard for her to even tell the difference anymore.”
#August2022

“‘It‘s been almost ten years,‘ she says. ‘A long time to think.‘
‘About what?‘
‘The accident.‘ She looks at him intently. ‘Do you still think about it?‘
‘I try not to, but sometimes I do.‘
‘I do, a lot.‘
#August2022

“I hate to break it to you, but just because someone has pretty hair and a good skin tone and a crown instead of a pointy hat doesn‘t mean she‘s not the baddest bitch this side of the emerald city.”
#August2022

“We all have versions of ourselves we can bear to look at, versions we prepare for the world‘s consumption, that we hope will make ourselves loved, allow us to be forgiven. Versions of our real selves that allow us to live with the things we have done.”
#August2022

“And when you hate someone, it leaves deeper scars on your psyche than loving someone ever can.”
#August2022

“‘To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.‘
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. ‘To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.‘”
#August2022

“Don‘t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don‘t do that.”
#July2022

“It is the people you think of when you are lonely or scared. The ones you think of when you lay on your back and stare up into the darkness and just wonder. It is those people you love. Those people you hold onto.”
#July2022

“Nights like this were meant to be shared, remembered, and talked about for years. Skies like this were meant to be kissed under.”
#July2022

“Just a glance at Emmeline and I wasn‘t myself. Or maybe I was more myself than I‘d ever been.”
#July2022