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“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Fight until you can’t breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“What can we forgive?
Anything.
If that's what we choose.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Time travel me back.
Let me say good-bye again.
A minute more,
a moment,
a chance to see. . .”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“I don't know why I didn't
put my arms around her,
tell her it's OK,
that I know she never meant to hurt me,
that sometimes we like people we shouldn't
and by the time we feel
what we feel
it's already too late.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Will you be ok if I'm not around? he asked.
Sure, I said,
but I didn't mean it.
Ed was my brother but also sort of like
my dad
and my best friend too.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“We don't have to be blood to be family.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses

“Sometimes you can be inserted into another person's life just by witnessing something you were never really supposed to be a part of.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses

“It suddenly dawns on me that there is a big difference between feeling tired and being weak.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses

“It's still there- my own heart, cobbled together and a little worse for wear- but it's definitely not all beat out.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses

“Catholics are pretty good at keeping Jesus nailed to that cross, rather than focusing more on that happy bit where he rose from the dead and freed us from sin and evil.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses

“Even after your heart breaks into a million pieces and your baby is gone, I am here to tell you- all around you the world will still go on spinning.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses

“I hope she’s never smiled at anyone like that before.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses

“I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“When one learns eventually that home is not an object, comfort begins to return.”
― Atia Abawi, A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

“The human heart is the most complicated creation I’ve ever encountered. The formation of the cosmos was easier to understand.”
― Atia Abawi, A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

“Don't ever stop dreaming big
But for now, put that dream on paper
It's easier to carry around”
― Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

“I will not be poisoned by your bitterness.”
― L. M. Montgomery