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#2

“When a government ceases to protect its people, it becomes necessary to overthrow it.”
― Rosaria Munda, Furysong

tags: dragons, fantasy, government, rebellion

#2

“For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say no.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

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#3

“Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.”
― Ginetta Sagan

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#4

“There is, it seems to me, a certain type of man who is terrified of the idea of a woman wielding power, of any sort; the type of man who is willing to dress up his terror in any sort of trappings to legitimise it.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

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#5

“Screw you, Hilo,” she snapped. “I can kill my ex-boyfriends myself.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

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#6

“They watch us kneel, they see the back of our heads, and they think we've given in. They don't realize you can think from your knees just as well as from your feet.”
― Rosaria Munda, Fireborne

tags: dragons, ya-fantasy

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#7

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: hoid, humor, luck, wit

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#8

“This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. I suppose both are a sort of gentle violence, putting down in ink what scorches the air when spoken aloud.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

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#9

“But keeping power is so much more difficult than gaining it. You have to make sacrifices. You keep sacrificing until you realize the thing you've sacrificed is yourself.”
― Rosaria Munda, Flamefall

tags: dragons, fantasy, flamefall

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#10

“To me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is you, not the state of you.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4

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#11

“I’ve heard rumours you were dead.” “That’s an improvement. Last time they said I was fucking goats.” “Oh, we took that one for a fact. What the hell are you doing here?”
― K.S. Villoso, The Ikessar Falcon

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#12

“When we have nothing else, even despair can be a weapon.”
― K.S. Villoso, The Ikessar Falcon

tags: quotes

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#13

“They called me “bitch”, the she-wolf, because I murdered a man and made my husband leave the night before they crowned me.”
― K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro

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#14

“Like a man with diarrhea in a sandpaper factory, sometimes all available options are less than ideal.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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#15

“Legitimacy," says Griff sagely, leaning back to prop an ankle on a knee, "sounds like a fancy word created by someone with a shorter knife to keep themselves from getting stabbed by someone with a longer one.”
― Rosaria Munda, Furysong

tags: furysong, legitimacy, politics, ya-fantasy

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#16

“Expectations are a funny thing,” Wen said. “When you’re born with them, you resent them, fight against them. When you’ve never been given any, you feel the lack of them your whole life.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

tags: expectations, jade-city

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#17

“Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

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#18

“I’ve never needed a sword to protect you—to raise you the way your father wanted. Caring for my family meant putting away the fighter, so I did.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

tags: motherhood, parenthood, responsibility

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#19

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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#20

“In my experience, as long as your friends have a high opinion of you, it doesn’t hurt when your enemies have a low opinion, the lower the better.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

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#21

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: inspirational, motto

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#22

“This world won’t give you what you want just because you asked nicely, girl. Not respect. Not love. Not peace. You get what you earn. You eat what you kill.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

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#23

“Because she was here on a diplomatic mission, she decided to be gentle. She had learned from experience that murder was a terrible way to start a relationship.”
― Wesley Chu, The Art of Prophecy

tags: diplomacy, humor, murder

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#24

“Watching your beloved be trampled and ridiculed with your own eyes and being unable to do a thing about it. You understand that you are nothing, that you can do nothing. That’s the worst suffering in the world.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4

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#25

“Saints,” Caethari muttered, casting a longing glance towards the wine. “This is exhausting. Why is this exhausting?”
“Because people are exhausting.”
― Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance

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#26

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#27

“There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

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#28

“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

tags: life

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#29

“Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

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#30

“The brightest meadows grew from dead things.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

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