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“Solitude is addictive. Once you discover how peaceful it is, you no longer want or need to deal with people anymore.”
― Nicola Haken, Broken

“The world’s too loud sometimes.”
― Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best

“Adults are so dumb.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Overhauling decades of preconceptions would take time.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Some straight kid who barely knows me, advising me on coming out. I kind of have to roll my eyes.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“What do you do in a pool when you don’t know how to swim? Learn. I guess that was the answer. I had managed to teach my body to stay afloat on water. Somehow, I’d stumbled on some principal of physics. And the best part of the whole thing was that I’d made the discovery all on my own.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won’t believe you. After that, they’ll leave you alone.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Feeling sorry for myself was an art.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“... you can’t go around telling people you wanna be a tree and expect them to take you seriously.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Maybe it’s better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Chemistry, the most molecularly shitty of all subjects, and I don’t mean that ionically.”
― Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera

“It won’t always hurt this much. All things fade. It doesn’t mean you forget, but the pain won’t be there in every breath...”
― Keira Andrews, Honeymoon for One

“... but people often took offense, no matter how gently he tried to explain.”
― Keira Andrews, Honeymoon for One

“Jesus, take me now. Scoop me from this earth; I shall never recover.”
― Mackenzi Lee, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“... how everyone is made to believe white is good, pure, a ray of light while black is bad, tainted, the ugliest darkness, is ridiculous.”
― Julian Winters, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

“How much planning makes a crime premeditated again? Asking for a friend.”
― S.E. Harmon, Coddiwomple

“I could be perfectly dead inside and pleasant on the outside. I was an excellent multitasker.”
― S.E. Harmon, Coddiwomple

“... there was no point in trying to argue semantics about subtle bigotry with a straight white guy.”
― E.M. Lindsey, Like Water Catching Fire

“The truth was you really didn’t know what a person was going through in life. It didn’t excuse bad behavior, but it sometimes explained how someone reached the point of lashing out at those around them.”
― Aimee Nicole Walker, Invisible Strings

“... broken crayons can still colour.”
― Nicola Haken, Broken

“... why have we all decided that the most important and to-be-respected quality is the one possessed by the worst people?”
― K.J. Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

“... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply.”
― K.J. Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

“My character was forged by independence and self-sufficiency in the face of loneliness, so I assumed the tools for survival were already in my kit, it was just a matter of learning to use them. But not only do I not have the tools, I have no plans and no supplies and seem to be working in a different medium entirely.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“Maybe everyone has hunger like this - impossible, insatiable, but all-consuming in spite of it all. Maybe the desert dreams of spilling rivers, valleys of a view. Maybe that hunger will one day pass. But if it does, I will be left shelled and halved and hollowed.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“I had lost sight of the fact that I want to do work that matters. I want to understand the world, and how it moves and how the intricate strings of existence weave together into a tapestry, and I want to weave those tapestries with my own two hands. I am filled suddenly by that wanting, to know things, to understand the world, to feel myself in it. It floods me with a ferocious strength. This world is mine. This work is mine. If it is selfish to want, then selfishness shall be my weapon. I will fight for everything that cannot fight for itself. Block the wind and keep away the wolves and put supper on the table. I am suddenly swollen with more than wanting to be known—I want to know.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“You can’t behave the way you do and then be surprised when someone tells you so.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue & The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy By Mackenzi Lee 2 Books Collection Set

“Men are such babies.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“It is so much easier to give into them than to try and fight them off. It’s a relief, like letting go the lead of a dog that’s been wrenching your shoulder with the force of its pulling. But now I have a dog to chase, and I’m running in circles after every catastrophic scenario, struggling to breathe.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks