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“But the truth is, I'm still not sure how to tell what's real because when you're inside it, it's your reality, and if your own perception of the world isn't valid, then what is?”
― Mira T. Lee, Everything Here Is Beautiful

“The important thing to remember is that I am not alone.
On days when it's hard, I remember I am not alone.
On days when it's easy, I remember I am not alone.
That is what gets me through.
Every day, it gets me through.”
― David Levithan, Someday

“It seems silly, right? To be crying when everything's fine?'

Well, why not, I figure, because if pain and tears were correlated, surely we would've all drowned by now.”
― Mira T. Lee, Everything Here Is Beautiful

“You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“It’s okay, Heiress,” Jameson murmured. “I’ve got you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Hey Sarge, remember me?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“With him, I am forever a night-blooming flower, attracted and repelled by the heat of the sun.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That’s the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realized I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Perhaps this is how we learn silence - an absence of words, an absence of context, a hole in the universe where the truth should be.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Everything died in the Ice Citadel, but hope died first.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“There is nothing lewd about biology, research, or basic facts, gentlemen, and you make yourselves fools when you try to classify the quest for understanding as obscene. The only thing more patently obscene than ignorance is willful ignorance. Arrest yourselves.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. the best thing to do is to treat all your days well. Then see what happens.”
― David Levithan, Someday

“There's always tomorrow, I tell myself. Which sounds less possible than someday, and much more possible than never." -A”
― David Levithan, Someday

“I want to love. I want to love indiscriminately - people, places, and things. But not just those. I want to love verbs. Adjectives. I want to love beyond category. Because, in my heart, I know that's what I was born to do. And life? Life is just the time I have to figure out how to do it well.”
― David Levithan, Someday

“You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don’t tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can’t get it off.”
― David Levithan, Someday

“There was a word for this feeling; a Portuguese word he’d once learned from Lucia: saudade. A vague longing for something that cannot exist again, or perhaps never existed.”
― Mira T. Lee, Everything Here Is Beautiful

“Every traveller returns home.”
― David Levithan, Someday

“It's the nervousness that comes from knowing that beginnings and endings are the same exact thing, and not knowing where that knowledge leads.”
― David Levithan, Someday

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Because life was fleeting and pointless unless you let yourself enjoy it, savor it, down to its lightest, most insignificant moments.”
― Soman Chainani, One True King

“A hand pulled her back. “You catch me, I catch you,”
― Soman Chainani, One True King

“Please, M,' said the king, 'Stay a little longer.”
― Soman Chainani, One True King

“if it's a choice between me and you, i choose you”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games