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It's the people who never learn the word impossible who make history, because they're the ones who keep trying.
From Wonder Woman. Warbringer
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Topic: Inspirational
None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Hope
But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.
From The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
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Topic: Hope
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
From Ruin and Rising
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Topic: Life
Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.
From Ruin and Rising
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Topic: Hope
A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.
From The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
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Topic: Hope
Inej,” Wylan called from one of the rolling bins. “These are our clothes.”

He reached in and, one after the other, pulled out Inej’s little leather slippers.

Her face broke into a dazzling smile. Finally, a bit of luck. Kaz didn’t have his cane. Jesper didn’t have his guns. And Inej didn’t have her knives. But at least she had those magic slippers.

“What do you say, Wraith? Can you make the climb?”

“I can.”

Jesper took the shoes from Wylan. “If I didn’t think these might be crawling with disease, I would kiss them and then you.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Hope
"Do you answer a question directly?"
"Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again"
From Siege and Storm
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Topic: Funny
Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.
From Wonder Woman: Warbringer
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Topic: Inspirational
The blood you spill is the blood of kings,” seethed Dunyasha. “You are not fit for such a gift.”
[...]
Inej raised a brow and slowly wiped the blood of kings on her trousers
From Crooked Kingdom
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Topic: Funny
Jesper: “If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Kaz: “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
Matthias: “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Funny
I will always seek to make it summer for you.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Hope
What is she to you anyway?"

"Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch.
From Shadow and Bone
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Topic: Inspirational
Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?"
"Guns?" asked Jesper.
"Ships?" queried Inej.
"Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
"Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.
From Crooked Kingdom
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Topic: Funny
Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.
From King of Scars
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Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Wylan drew himself up. “I may not have had your … education, but I’m sure I know plenty of words that you don’t.”

“Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills.”

“No one dances the minuet any more,” grumbled Wylan.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Funny
We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.
From Wonder Woman: Warbringer
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Topic: Motivational
Let the hounds give chase. I do not fear death, because I command it.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Death
It's the people who never learn the word impossible who make history, because they're the ones who keep trying.
From Wonder Woman. Warbringer
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Topic: Inspirational
None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Hope
But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.
From The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
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Topic: Hope
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
From Ruin and Rising
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Topic: Life
Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.
From Ruin and Rising
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Topic: Hope
A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.
From The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
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Topic: Hope
Inej,” Wylan called from one of the rolling bins. “These are our clothes.”

He reached in and, one after the other, pulled out Inej’s little leather slippers.

Her face broke into a dazzling smile. Finally, a bit of luck. Kaz didn’t have his cane. Jesper didn’t have his guns. And Inej didn’t have her knives. But at least she had those magic slippers.

“What do you say, Wraith? Can you make the climb?”

“I can.”

Jesper took the shoes from Wylan. “If I didn’t think these might be crawling with disease, I would kiss them and then you.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Hope
"Do you answer a question directly?"
"Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again"
From Siege and Storm
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Topic: Funny
Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.
From Wonder Woman: Warbringer
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Topic: Inspirational
The blood you spill is the blood of kings,” seethed Dunyasha. “You are not fit for such a gift.”
[...]
Inej raised a brow and slowly wiped the blood of kings on her trousers
From Crooked Kingdom
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Topic: Funny
Jesper: “If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Kaz: “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
Matthias: “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Funny
I will always seek to make it summer for you.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Hope
What is she to you anyway?"

"Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch.
From Shadow and Bone
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Topic: Inspirational
Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?"
"Guns?" asked Jesper.
"Ships?" queried Inej.
"Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
"Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.
From Crooked Kingdom
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Topic: Funny
Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.
From King of Scars
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Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Wylan drew himself up. “I may not have had your … education, but I’m sure I know plenty of words that you don’t.”

“Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills.”

“No one dances the minuet any more,” grumbled Wylan.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Funny
We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.
From Wonder Woman: Warbringer
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Topic: Motivational
Let the hounds give chase. I do not fear death, because I command it.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Death
It's the people who never learn the word impossible who make history, because they're the ones who keep trying.
From Wonder Woman. Warbringer
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Topic: Inspirational
None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Hope
But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.
From The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
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Topic: Hope
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
From Ruin and Rising
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Topic: Life
Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.
From Ruin and Rising
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Topic: Hope
A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.
From The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
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Topic: Hope
Inej,” Wylan called from one of the rolling bins. “These are our clothes.”

He reached in and, one after the other, pulled out Inej’s little leather slippers.

Her face broke into a dazzling smile. Finally, a bit of luck. Kaz didn’t have his cane. Jesper didn’t have his guns. And Inej didn’t have her knives. But at least she had those magic slippers.

“What do you say, Wraith? Can you make the climb?”

“I can.”

Jesper took the shoes from Wylan. “If I didn’t think these might be crawling with disease, I would kiss them and then you.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Hope
"Do you answer a question directly?"
"Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again"
From Siege and Storm
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Topic: Funny
Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.
From Wonder Woman: Warbringer
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Topic: Inspirational
The blood you spill is the blood of kings,” seethed Dunyasha. “You are not fit for such a gift.”
[...]
Inej raised a brow and slowly wiped the blood of kings on her trousers
From Crooked Kingdom
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Topic: Funny
Jesper: “If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Kaz: “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
Matthias: “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Funny
I will always seek to make it summer for you.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Hope
What is she to you anyway?"

"Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch.
From Shadow and Bone
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Topic: Inspirational
Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?"
"Guns?" asked Jesper.
"Ships?" queried Inej.
"Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
"Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.
From Crooked Kingdom
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Topic: Funny
Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.
From King of Scars
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Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Wylan drew himself up. “I may not have had your … education, but I’m sure I know plenty of words that you don’t.”

“Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills.”

“No one dances the minuet any more,” grumbled Wylan.
From Six of Crows
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Topic: Funny
We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.
From Wonder Woman: Warbringer
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Topic: Motivational
Let the hounds give chase. I do not fear death, because I command it.
From Rule of Wolves
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Topic: Death