“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
- A Bene Gesserit saying from Dune by Frank Herbert
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"I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
- Lila Bard from A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
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“People do judge books by their covers; it’s human nature. They react to the way you look before they hear a single word that comes out of your mouth.”
- Riley from The Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
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“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
- Gandalf the Grey to Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
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“Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!”
- Bilbo to himself from The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
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"What are we drinking to?"
"The living," said Rhy."
"The dead," said Alucard and Lila at the same time.
"We're being thorough," added Rhy.”
- A conversation in A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab
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“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
- From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- Nick from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.”
- El from A Deadly Education by Naomi Novick
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“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
- Adeline LaRue from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
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"Yeah, well, the dog ate my notebook with all my good excuses"
- The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett
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