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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. –Haruki Murakami

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“To do something for someone or something you loved wasn’t a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.”

— Connie Willis, All Clear

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“I’m afraid it never stops hurting.”

— Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (via courageous-pages)

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“The way things are now–we’re alive, but what kind of life is it?”

— Amatka, Karin Tidbeck

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Justice seemed so little, so late.

Nettle and Bone, T. Kingfisher

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You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers

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He kept regular hours, avoided any human interaction more complicated than afternoon tea, and read for exactly thirty minutes before bed.

Hither, Page, Cat Sebastien

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Her tone, as always, was deeply sarcastic. It was one of the things Elliot liked best about her.

In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan

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He had not thought about how dangerous it would be, to have all his dreams come true.

In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan

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You pretended to hate him because you were a coward. But you eventually loved him, and he is a part of you now, because you have since grown brave.

The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin

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There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both--taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much.

The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin

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It gives him power, but what good is power if it comes on a spiked leash?

The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin

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Something to remember, Syen, for when you make your own choices in the future: Some of them come with a terrible price. And sometimes that price is worth paying.

The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin

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She doesn't want to go back, not even for the end of the world.

The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin

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The decision not to leave your crown where it had fallen was the hardest decision you had ever made.

Petty Treasons, Victoria Goddard

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You do not need to solve all the world's ills in one fell swoop.

The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, Victoria Goddard

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It is a hazard of the profession, arrogance. You can change the world, and so you begin to think you should.

The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, Victoria Goddard

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I went to sit at the feet of the Sun. I went to learn what I might learn, and from the house of the Sun I have brought home the fire.

The Hands of the Emperor, Victoria Goddard