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“Even the sun gets covered by clouds some days. That doesn’t take away from the light it gives off.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Southern Storms

“It’s been proven that people who read live longer. Are you trying to die young?”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren't even worth it. Without the beautiful, you'll never risk feeling the ugly. So you give it all up. You give it all up. You never want love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“What rules?”

“Well, for one, I’m not allowed to break your heart,” he says. “Second, I’m also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I’m not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Our life is a series of plans,” she finally said. “Days, weeks, months, years… And then, there are moments. Moments you don’t see coming and you don’t plan, but everything you need, all the things you want to feel, are in that moment.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“A person never reads an outstanding book twice and walks away with the same beliefs. An outstanding book always surprises you and awakens you to new ideas, new ways of looking at the world, no matter how many times the words have been read.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Silent Waters

“A good book was its own brand of magic, one I could safely indulge in without fear of getting caught by those who hunted. I loved escaping from reality, especially during times of trouble. Stories made everything possible.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

“Love is the most powerful magic. Above all else, remember that. It will always guide you where you need to go.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

“There are victors and victims. Decide who you want to be. Or the choice will be made for you, witch. And I doubt you’ll like it.”

I threw my head back and groaned. “It’s a game of scopa, not a battle between life and death. Are you always this dramatic?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

“Young women died. Life resumed. Such was the way of the world, at least according to men.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

“One day you might beg me to kiss you.” He stepped close enough for me to stab him.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“But sometimes remembering isn’t for yourself, sometimes you do it just to make someone else smile. Those lies were allowed.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

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

“Happiness is tricky. Sometimes you have to fight for it. Sometimes, though—the best times—it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“It doesn’t matter that love ends. It just matters that there’s love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Sometimes the only thing to say about a period of time is that it’s passing and that you’re surviving it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel