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“Manchmal glaube ich, dass die Monster, die früher unter meinem Bett gewohnt haben, irgendwann unbemerkt in meinen Kopf gezogen sind.”
― Anne Freytag, Den Mund voll ungesagter Dinge

“Ich glaube, ich hab's jetzt verstanden... ich bin nicht nur eine Sache. Ich bin tausend Sachen. Ich bin eine Tochter und ich bin Alex' Freundin. Und eine Vertraute. Und eine Schwester. Ich bin launisch, und ich bin loyal. Und ich bin achtzehn. Und ich bin verliebt. Ich bin ein guter Mensch, der manchmal dumme Dinge tut. Ich mache Fehler, und manchmal mache ich sie wieder gut. Ich bin kompliziert, und ich bin einfach. Ich bin Sophie. Und das Flittchen. Und Papas Motte. Ich bin einfach ich. Und ich bin lesbisch. Und ich bin nicht lesbisch. Und ich bin unsicher. Und ich bin selbstsicher. All das bin ich. Ich bin nicht nur eine Sache. Ich bin das alles. Und das ist erst der Anfang.”
― Anne Freytag, Den Mund voll ungesagter Dinge

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Your ignorance may be innocent but the racism is real. I want both of you to think about how what you said might make me feel.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“This book is a fairy tale  in which I am the prince  and the princess. I am  the king and the queen.  I am my own wicked  witch and fairy godmother.  This book is a fairy tale  in which I’m cursed  and blessed by others.  But, finally, I am the fair y  finding my own magic.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“Granddad asks, “Why does it matter if he’s black? The other flamingos don’t care.” And I’m certain what he’s saying is “I love you.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“You are a full human being. It's never as simple as being half and half.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“You are made up of stars and the black glittering universe.”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“I think lonely creatures ache for each other because who else can understand but someone who feels the same dark, black abyss?”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“Ah yes, the most dangerous person at the party is always the girl sitting alone with a book.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“Some days I forget that my skin is not a panic room.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“When you choose to be a poet,
you become a place that people walk through
and then leave when they are ready”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“Being black is one of the most extreme sports in America.
We don't need to invent new ways of risking our lives
because the old ones have been working for decades.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“They say hunting monsters will turn you into one. That isn’t what’s happening now. Sometimes to kill a dragon, you have to remember that you breath fire too. This isn’t a becoming; its a revealing. I’ve been a monster all along.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Even more amazing: we change the upper layers of our skin every two weeks. If all the cells in our body did this, we’d be immortal. But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us. In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly’s hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can’t have both.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I don't believe in love."

"It's not a religion," he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Stars are important," I say, laughing.

"Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing