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“And maybe the dawns will be less harrowing in that country for which I shortly depart.”
― Donna Tart

“You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I don't know, it's like I look at you and suddenly the sonnets makes sense. The good ones, anyway.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“When did we become such terrible people?”
“Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Et tu, Brute?”
― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar

“His heart slowed, winding down like a music box, a season at its end.
The last air left Holland's lungs.
And then, at last, the world breathed in.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“But Kell knew he couldn’t break Holland.
Holland was already broken. It showed, not in the scars, but in the way he spoke, the way he held himself in the face of pain, too well acquainted with its shape and scale. He was a man hollowed out long before Osaron, a man with no fear and no hope and nothing to lose.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Just because the stars fell doesn't mean they weren't worth wishing on.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“You know you never wanted us to be happy, Sam. Happiness is a brittle,
fleeting thing.
You wanted us to feel loved, and we did”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“And I think of how time passes so differently for different people.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I wish her more happiness than can fit in a person. I wish her the kind of happiness that spills over.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I listened to the same heartbroken song the entire bus ride home, because it was still a summer when sadness was beautiful.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“We are different people now, yes, but those girls were magic.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Because when everything is said and done... the world runs on kindness. It simply has to, or we'd never be a able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older." ~Ariel”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I know that you know I've been in love with you for forever. You don't have to pretend.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“they were binary stars, trapped in each other’s gravitational field and easily diminished without the other’s opposing force”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“It was real for me!" "It was real for me, too." Most of it. Some of it.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“In another world he might have touched her. In another world, she would have welcomed it.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“You're allowed to love books and broken things.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Goodnight, Sony,' he whispers. 'I hope you find your everything.' Her ashes spring free in the shape of wings.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“You're kind,' Neo said. 'Not the normal kindness that people throw around. It's a real type of kindness, the raw, thoughtful kind that comes from the heart.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“You were his friend, weren't you?' 'Yes,' I say. 'Was he happy here?' she asks. 'Did he smile?”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren't meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn't have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. "Dante's my friend.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“In your dream. You were looking for me."

"I'm always looking for you," I whispered.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“He laughs and for some reason it sounds like I'm ringing the doorbell of the home I grew up in.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home