Six of Crows
“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
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Tag: books
The Fault in Our Stars
“I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”
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A Crown of Wishes
“A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.”
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The Star-Touched Queen
“He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.”
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The Weight of Our Sky
“When there is so much broken about the world we currently live in, one cracked person is easy enough to excuse or ignore.”
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Red, White & Royal Blue
“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
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