“Skies save me from the men in my life and all the things they think they know.”  

― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch.

Readers Are Sharing The Best Opening Line Of A Book They’ve Ever Read, And These Are Captivating

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“The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house.”
― Sui Ishida.

“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

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Swimming might be the closest to flying

a human being can get. There is something

about your body displacing water

in order to propel through space that makes you feel

Godtouched.

-Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo

“My friends call me Wrath. My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name, soldier boy?”

Susan Ee, Angelfall

“Some things stay a little bit broken forever, even after they’ve been fixed.”

Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“You can have all of me, but I’m taking all of you in return.”

Jeaniene Frost, Twice Tempted