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“You know that voice in your head—the one that tells you to apologize for existing? That says you’re not enough?” I nod. “It’s lying.” He leans in closer to me, his breath warm on my face. “You are enough. Right now. Just the way you are.”
― Erin Stewart, The Words We Keep

“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Books are not really just books at all, but doorways. They are portals into places I've never been and people I'll never be.”
― Ashley Poston, Bookish and the Beast

“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog."

COURTESY VIOLATION-RESPONSE MUTED-VIOLATION LOGGED”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,’ Juliette whispered.
‘In this life and the next,’ Roma returned, ‘for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"
Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"
"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."
Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."
...
I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."
"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.
"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked...
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,' he said dryly. 'Don't die.'
Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out.
'Great. We're all bloody inspired,' Newt answered.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Hit me with all those thinky thoughts,”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Like, even in fiction, friends to lovers? Never my thing. I'm more star-crossed tragedy, supernatural soul mates, enemies to lovers. Epic, you know?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery-some things are too precious to gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I don't do vulnerable," Thea retorted. "It clashes with my bitch aesthetic.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.”

He looked at me like the act of doing so was painful and sweet. “It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Why is it me? Why do you always single me out?"

"Because," he says quietly. "You're the only person worth paying attention to.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park