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He wouldn't even dance with Levana at the stupid ball if he could help it—to hell with diplomacy.


Marissa Meyer

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MARISSA MEYER Impossible is my specialty."

-Marissa Meyer, Heartless
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MARISSA MEYER To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of o...
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MARISSA MEYER It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.
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like a bee around the queen,
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and I picked up that arrowhead
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J.R. WARD If he had won Euro 2004 he could have slept with the guard dog and got away with it [on Sven]
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CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.
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Cinder paused and...
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'Your Highness,'...
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He squinted...
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She stiffe...
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...
MARISSA MEYER If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well."
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MARISSA MEYER Iko, did we break into that guardhouse and broadcast Cinder's message across all of Luna?"
"Yes...
MARISSA MEYER I'm not your enemy.
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MARISSA MEYER Now we're talking. Let's go be superheroes!
MARISSA MEYER What exactly are we looking for?

Villains, doing villainous things.
MARISSA MEYER Impossible is my specialty."

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MARISSA MEYER Always check your hats be-
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MARISSA MEYER Off with his head
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MARISSA MEYER Her rage split her open.
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He put her in a pumpkin s...
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‘How different everything could have been, if yo...
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MARISSA MEYER Stuff and nonsense. Nonsense and stuff and much of a muchness and nonsense all over again. We are al...
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MARISSA MEYER Her mother sneered. “Then you are a fool.”

“Good. I’ve become rather fond of fool...
MARISSA MEYER Perhaps we know each other in the future and you’re only remembering backward.
MARISSA MEYER Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.
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MARISSA MEYER The easiest way to steal something, is for it to be given willingly.
MARISSA MEYER She definitely has a crush on you. It's about the size of Jupiter.
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MARISSA MEYER You're a good guy, Thorne." She paused. "Well, you have your moments.
MARISSA MEYER She’s our lost princess. And she’s coming home.
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MARISSA MEYER Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?

Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine wi...
MARISSA MEYER As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before...
MARISSA MEYER It meant he was sure to see Linh Cinder again.
Maybe he could learn more about her then.
M...
MARISSA MEYER In fact,” Cinder continued, “my understanding is that, under Kai—Emperor Kai—Kaito?” She r...
MARISSA MEYER Cinder has a bit of crush in him", Thorne stage-whispered.
"Don't we all?" said Iko.
MARISSA MEYER Crazy loves company, Sir Clay.
MARISSA MEYER It's a terrible shame he's a Renegade, isn't it? Otherwise, you could have asked him to stay for din...
MARISSA MEYER Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, bu...
MARISSA MEYER Hey, I’m not judging. I’m familiar with IT-relations. Just wait until you meet our spaceship. Sh...
MARISSA MEYER An animal?" Thorne said, and she realized he'd been waiting for her to further explain what she was ...
MARISSA MEYER A kiss from the Captain would probably melt my central processor.”
Thorne winked at her. “...
MARISSA MEYER Cress?"
"It's beautiful out there."
A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?" MARISSA MEYER And the moral of that is "Once a goldfish, forever a goldfish.
MARISSA MEYER Levana knew a great deal about beauty, just as she knew a great deal about ugliness.
MARISSA MEYER You can help me pick out a tiara when we’re done saving the world.
MARISSA MEYER I guess it’s time.”
While Cress’s thoughts continued to churn through the horrible things...
MARISSA MEYER You're extra beautiful when you talk about baking. You know you're good at it, and that knowledge li...
MARISSA MEYER Over everything, I choose you.
MARISSA MEYER It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.” Cath
MARISSA MEYER I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you...
MARISSA MEYER Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, l...
MARISSA MEYER Wow, when you research, you really research, don't you?
MARISSA MEYER Let's pick it up," the man behind her said. "How many more of the tranquilizers do you have?"
"...
MARISSA MEYER Come here, baby sister," she whispered, and despite the terror twisting inside Levana's stomach, her...
MARISSA MEYER Maybe she truly was hideous. But so long as she could deceive everyone, what did it matter?
MARISSA MEYER It's just... you never show your face, when they record you. Rumors are starting, you know. People t...
MARISSA MEYER I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours l...
MARISSA MAYER When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glass...
MARISSA MAYER I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day w...
MARISSA MAYER Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing ...
MARISSA MAYER I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywher...
MARISSA MAYER You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
MARISSA MAYER