"So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more." 
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

"Why are some things easier to write than say?"
― Ally Condie, Matched

"You don't know what you are."
― Holly Black, The Iron Trial

"You're mixing your metaphors. It gives me a headache."
― Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, The Bronze Key

"If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system."
― Marie Lu, Legend

"Everyone has a different way of escaping the dark stillness of their mind."
― Marie Lu, Warcross

"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

"The most unlikely person can alter the course of history.
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin