"'Magic doesn't require beauty,' she said.  'Easy magic is pretty.  Great magic asks that you trouble the waters.  It requires a disruption, something new."
-Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

"That I might always be a little bit vicious or restless.  That I might crave peace, but never a cage of comfort."
-A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

"'Tell you what,' said Victor.  'You remember me, and I'll remember you, and that way we won't be forgotten.'"
-Vicious by V.E. Schwab

"Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human."
-Vicious by V.E. Schwab

"It had taken all his control to hide the anger, the desire to pen over Eli's life, and rewrite it into his."
-Vicious by V.E. Schwab

"Victor wondered about lots of things.  He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were all really as stupid as they seemed).  He wondered about Angie - what would happen if he told her how he felt, what it would be like if she chose him.  He wondered about life, and people, and science, and magic, and God, and whether he believed in any of them." 
-Vicious by V. E. Schwab  

"He wondered why we can't remember when our mothers carried us inside them:  the dark and steady heart, how it was the whole of the world, and no one harmed us, and we harmed no one."
-The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski

"'You could rattle the stars,' she whispered.  'You could do anything, if you only dared.  And deep down, you know it, too.  That's what scares you most.'"
-Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

"'I'm not afraid of dying.  But I am afraid of dying here.'  She swept her hand over the room, the tavern, the city.  'I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still."
-A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

"I have been made to protect you.  Only in death will I be kept from this oath." 
-Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

"For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is.  Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life.  Stop waiting.  That is it:  there's nothing else.  It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."
-The Magicians by Lev Grossman

"She constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage.  She hoped it would be enough."
-Fire by Kristin Cashore

"She didn't want to be released into the wild.  She wanted to be held dear.  To belong to a place and a family, irrevocably." 
-Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

"Wishes are false.  Hope is true.  Hope makes its own magic."
-Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

"'So you are a child of love.  It seems right, that you were made by love.'

She had never thought of herself in that way, but after he said it, it struck her as a fine thing, to have been made by love, and she ached for what she had lost, in losing her family."
-Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

"Truly, my bed is the greatest place in the world." 
-The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson

"Be your own place of safety, she told herself." 
-Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

"Witches are just women who are naturally attuned to magic in our world," Nell said.  "They can manipulate it, when others can't even sense its presence." 
-The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken

"Because magic wasn't in the elements.  Magic lived in the spaces, in the emptiness between all things, connecting them.  It waited there for those who knew how to find it, for those who had the born ability to grasp those connections - the Mageus." 
-The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

"Now I have to tell you how foolish I am.  Before that gray and lifeless time following Rook's departure, I'd always scoffed at stories in which maidens pine for their absent suitors, boys they've hardly known a week and have no business falling for.  Didn't they realize their lives were worth more than the dubious affection of one silly young man?  That there were things to do in a world that didn't revolve solely around their heartbreak?

Then it happens to you, and you understand you aren't any different from those girls after all.  Oh, they still seem just as absurd - you've simply joined them, in quite a humbling way.  But isn't absurdity part of being human?  We aren't ageless creatures who watch centuries pass from afar.  Our worlds are small, our lives are short, and we can only bleed a little before we fall." 
-An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson