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"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will."

"Regardless of gender, one has to be willing to take what belongs and what has been promised, by not backing down and by not giving up. Never be willing to throw in the towel and accept defeat!"

"Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled."

"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."

"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

"If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time."
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"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."

"Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--""Drugs?""Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?""No. But maybe rituals""Drugs might be better."

"Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast."

"It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it."

"Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing."

"Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on."

"So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality."

"His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain."

"A symptom," Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. "You're both fools."
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