Crooked Kingdom
“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
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Tag: ya novel
Six of Crows
“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
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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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