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“Find the light that makes your lantern shine,” she used to say. “Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Because I know you, he says tenderly, "and I remember what you sound like when you like something.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I thought you didn’t like holding hands,” I say.
“And you said you did,” he says.
“So, what? I just get whatever I want now?” I tease.
His smile flickers back into place, calm and restrained. “Yes, Poppy,” he says. “You get whatever you want now. Is that a problem?”
“What if I want you to have what you want?”
He arches an eyebrow. “Are you just saying that because you know what I’m going to say, and you want to make fun of me for it?”
“No?” I say. “Why? What are you going to say?”
Our hands go still between us. “I have what I want, Poppy.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“The corner of his mouth twitches into a smile. “You could have always looked,” he says in a low voice. “Just so you know.”
“Well, you could’ve too,” I say.
“Trust me,” he says. “I did.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I shove down the hazy memories of everything that mouth did in Croatia.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“It wasn’t a monster come to eat me. It was this monster. Who’s come to eat me out.”
― Ruby Dixon, Ice Planet Barbarians

“And then I want to weep. To think I haven’t dressed properly for alien abduction.”
― Ruby Dixon, Ice Planet Barbarians

“I would not have you be alone, Lina, not in your joys or your sorrows. I would wish your strand knotted to mine, always.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“If you think the story has a sad ending, it's because it's not over yet.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I see,” Wakely said, slowly unraveling her guilt. “Your brother saved you—so you think you should have been able to save him. Is that it?” She turned to look at him, her face hollow. “But Elizabeth, you couldn’t swim—that’s why he jumped in after you. You have to understand, suicide isn’t like that. Suicide is lot more complicated.” “Wakely,” she said. “He didn’t know how to swim either.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“There is no comfort like complicity.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“The future is wide and wild and full of promise, but it is precarious, too. Seize on every opportunity that comes your way and cling to it, lest it be washed back out to sea.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“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

“I think she loves me because I’m her daughter. But I’ve never felt sure she loves me because I’m me. Does that make sense?”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“That’s the deal with people. They’re always more than one thing, and a lot of times they’re even a collection of contradictory traits.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing.
But I was wrong.
Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost - it was the combination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.
- Florence Day”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics