“Dyin’ can ruin a good time.”

📖: James by Percival Everett

“You do not believe that humans are inherently bad?” I asked.

“I do not. If they were, they would kill as soon as they could walk.”

📖: James by Percival Everett

“How kin one person own another person?”
“Dat be a good question, Huck.”

📖: James, Percival Everett

“What you be doin’ on dis ilan? And why you got blood all ova ya?”
“I kilt myself,” the boy said.
I looked him over. “You din’t do a good job.”

📖: James, Percival Everett

“I don’t see no profit in askin’ for stuff just so I don’t get it and learn a lesson ’bout not gettin’ what I asked fer. What kinda sense does that make? Might as well pray to that board there.”

📖: James, Percival Everett

“It seem sumtimes you jest gotta put up wif your friends. Dey gonna do what dey gonna do.”

📖: James, Percival Everett

“…sometimes her fear is so loud that it’s all she can hear.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“People see what they want to. I’m sick of hoping that they’ll see me.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“I can’t tell what color his eyes are. Blue, maybe. Or green. Something cold. Reptilian.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“I tried to give you back what that monster took. I hope it worked. Because now, as time escapes me, I realize the greatest thing he could have stolen from you was not your innocence, but your hope.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“…there are some things we shouldn’t forget, because if we do, then bad people get away with bad shit. And we keep getting hurt.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“Anyway, there are probably other things God gets more upset about than two people kissing,” I say. “Wars. Bombings. Murders.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“I think of the way denial can weave its way through a family, whisper gentle lies, and make itself at home.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“I don’t believe in people who say they can see the future. Now is now, and the only thing we know is that we don’t know shit”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“My better sense kicks in. I bottle my rage. Shove it deep in my head. Anger won’t help anything. I don’t even know who I’m mad at.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“She nods, and her shoulders relax. Relief, maybe. She moves away quickly after that. No backward glance. Like she’s worried I’ll change my mind. Like if she stays too long, I’ll say something she doesn’t want to hear.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“We’ve got a thousand fantasy books with gray-eyed heroes. (Which is BS, because who actually has gray eyes, and is also handsome and can also swing a sword? No one.)”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“I’m myself but not myself. Like I’m watching someone else from far away.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

“Go to bed, you fool,” Calcifer said sleepily. “You’re drunk.”
“Who, me?” said Howl. “I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky

“Then he stood up. “I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky

I JUST READ THAT!! Omg yes hes so drama- it’s great🤭

The best!!

“You’re a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You’re victimising us all.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky

“I can clean the dirt from this place even if I can’t clean you from your wickedness, young man.”
“Howl’s not wicked,” Michael said.
“Yes I am,” Howl contradicted him.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky

“Howl’s quite heartless, you know.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky

“But I discovered that people like me – they do, you know, if you like them – and then it was all right.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky

something I love about science fiction and fantasy authors is they looked at the world around them and said, so this could definitely be cooler

“Our worlds had an impassable gulf between them.”

📖: Dance of Thieves, Mary E. Pearson
#booksky

DNF’d “The Games Gods Play” because the author called someone an “asshat.” #booksky

“Isn’t that the point of art—to tame the monsters in us?”

📖: The Rebel Witch, Kristen Ciccarelli
#booksky