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“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“That is the hardest part. Knowing that you embody a realm, he whispered. As her womb tided, so did all of Inys. That your eyes are its vigilance, your stomach, its strength; your heart, its shield; your flesh, its future.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“Anoshe was a word for strangers in the street, and lovers between meetings, for parents and children, friends and family. It softened the blow of leaving. Eased the strain of parting. A careful nod to the certainty of today, the mystery of tomorrow. When a friend left, with little chance of seeing home, they said anoshe. When a loved one was dying, they said anoshe. When corpses were burned, bodies given back to the earth and souls to the stream, those left grieving said anoshe.

Anoshe brought solace. And hope. And the strength to let go.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Ask me in the morning, after I’ve spent hours weighed down by nightmares, drugged beyond reason just to hold back the memories of dying, which was not so bad as coming back, and I’d say yes. I wish you’d let me die.”
Kell looked ill. “I—”
“But ask me in the afternoon,” cut in Rhy, “when I’ve felt the sun cutting through the cold, or the warmth of Alucard’s smile, or the steady weight of your arm around my shoulders, and I would tell you it was worth it. It is worth it.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“My mother told me we are all like roses. I always thought it means that we opened our petals, took our true form, and gradually withered. But perhaps we never stop growing. If women are flowers, we are not roses, but day's eyes - blooming not once, but over and over, each time the light touches us.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“Can you imagine what that’s like – to be seen only for the life you could make, not the life you already possess?”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War

“A thousand flatterers are not worth one person who is willing to wipe your ass.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War

“I do not need to be loved as deeply as I love, and I do not need to speak of it.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War

“I will write a poem for her. I have tried several times already, but I am too tired, and she is too much for ink to capture. I am only staining paper.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War

“I do not need to be loved as deeply as I love, and I do not need to speak of it. All I knew was that she remembered me in this moment. And one moment is all there ever is.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War

“The odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Sooner or later we are forced to confront their darkness. We can choose the when, not the if. And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“To my own surprise, I was unable to accept the shame he wanted me to feel. It was too familiar to be imposed: I had produced it myself for such a long time that, right then, I found I had no space left for it anymore.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“The sacrifices made in this war would have to be enough. Malini was monstrous enough to seize a throne and murder a brother. She was monstrous enough to continue the glorious, bloody cruelty of empire. She had made herself so.
She would choose now to be monstrous enough to let an enemy live, for the sake of keeping what was hers. She would choose love over goodness.
Let future generations face the yaksa once more. Let the rot continue. Only, let me have her.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“I have faith in your humanity. In all of you that is broken and hurtful. I have faith in all of you that is mortal. You have many faces, Priya. The mortal one, the flawed one, and the one with power, this immortal one—they’re all mine. If you will allow it. They’re all mine.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“I am a good liar, Malini thought. It is not my fault you see through me, as if every mask I wear is nothing but gauze, and my love for you a lamp.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“What does it matter,” Malini said, her voice splintering. “If I don’t
have you? If you are gone where I cannot see you or feel you or dream
you again, then what is any of it worth to me?”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“I’m here. I had the world in my palm, and I found it wanting. I’m a greedy creature, Priya. I came here for you. There is a flower in my heart, and it grew for you.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“I don’t kill you because it is right or good, or because any great sense of justice compels me to,” Rao told him. “I am killing you because you deserve to die, and the world will be better with you gone. I am killing you because you do not deserve to choose the shape of your own death.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“She felt no pain at the thought yet. She knew now from experience that a grave wound was often painless when fresh because the hurt of it was too great for the mind to grasp. The agony would come later.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“I need you to understand this now. For all that I have lost, I am glad I never lost you.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“He wanted to see stars under a new sky.
It would be like walking straight into a fire that couldn't burn or break you. A light of possibility.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“Priya, the world is vast and strange, and it is mine. I have the kind of power men die for, and yet I tire of it. I remember a dream of garlanding you and I think —
— I think it is more powerful and strange than any crown. To live without masks. To swim through rage and grief and rise, alive, on the other side.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“What was joy, anyway. What was the worth of happiness that left behind a crater thrice the size of its impact.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“Nothing touched by Empire stays clean.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire