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"Don't let anyone tell you, ever, that this is a zero-sum game. Your genius does not threaten me. It delights and inspires me."
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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives."

"Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left."

"Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind."

"Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars."

"I didn't even feel my face hitting the pond. Everything was darkness, glorious darkness and the final, perfect absence of pain. It was done, all of it, the running and the fighting, and the pain. After everything that I'd gone through, it was finally over, and this time, the water would carry me home."

"Hey!' I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. 'I was talking to him!'Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. 'No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters."

"There is no fighting in the Library. Anyone who starts a fight or responds to a challenge will be thrown out. You may think you can take me. You're probably right. But none of you can take the Library."
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