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“You bow to no one,”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“And the most important lesson I learned is that I’m not a victim—I’m a survivor.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Yes,” Wit said. “He’s noticed me, I’ve noticed him, we’ve noticed each other.” He paused, then added in a softer voice, “And now I want an adventure.”
― K.L. Walther, The Summer of Broken Rules

“You filled a part of my soul I always thought would be empty, and you healed scars I never knew existed. And I realized…it’s not that I didn’t believe in love before. It’s that I was saving it all for you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“I don't agree with your choices", I croaked out. "But I respect that they are yours to make.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“I had a temper. I got angry easily. But I had made myself learn how to control it. I had decided early on that I wasn’t going to let that emotion define me. I wanted to be better. I wanted to be a good person. I wanted to be someone—not necessarily someone great or someone important—but someone I could live with.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“My aunt used to say, if you don't fit in, fool everyone until you do.

She also said to keep your passport renewed, to pair red wines with meat and whites with everything else, to find work that is fulfilling to your heart as well as your head, to never forget to fall in love whenever you can find it because love is nothing if not a matter of timing, and to chase the moon. Always, always chase the moon.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Never run away, never look away, never explain away. This was how I survived.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“An underrated symptom of inherited trauma is how socially awkward it is to live with.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Men would likely go extinct without women to coddle them.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I want my girl back. I want the future I dared to dream about. I want her.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“when she was a seven-year-old she had declared rain to be the best weather because it was reading weather.”
― Peter Swanson, A Talent for Murder

“I don't create attachments to people in fear I won't be good enough for them to stick around.”
― Bal Khabra, Collide

“It wasn't a romance; it was too perfect for that. With texts there were only the words and none of the awkwardness. They could get to know each other completely and get comfortable before they had to do anything unnecessarily overwhelming like look at each other's eyeballs with their eyeballs.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Light, air, and faint classical music filled the store. My shoulders relaxed. I breathed easier in a room full of books, as if the paper retained the capacity of the trees they'd once been. So many books filled this room, more than in my own or my parent's or our living room, even though we had a wall of built-in shelves. The shop had alleys of books, towering cases of books. You could get lost here. You could be found.”
― Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I don’t know. New sounds scary. It sounds like failure.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“You kill an artist, you kill all their unmade art too. Why don't people think about that before they hurt each other?”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“You forfeited your rights the moment you became my fiancée.”  “Careful, Declan. Your misogyny is showing.”
― Lauren Asher, Terms and Conditions

“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Shannon Lynch changed me. I knew that sounded like contrite bullshit, but it was the truth.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“As far as friends went, I didn’t really have any–not because I didn’t want them, but because making friends as an adult is hard. Honestly, I enjoyed solitute, but there’s a difference between that and being lonely.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“In a different life, in a fair one, I would’ve kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust.”
― Kaylie Smith, Phantasma

“As far as I know, there are two ways to get over someone: Surrender to the anger that’s already there, or invent something to get angry about. Sometimes it was always wrong, and the only thing to do is stop believing it was ever good to love them. But sometimes they were good to you. Sometimes you go looking for kindling and find that green leaves won’t burn, that the garden was watered too well. Sometimes you have to rearrange the truth into something you won’t miss.

And sometimes, when enough time goes by, it gets hard to remember which one you did.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Mmm. I knew red was my favorite color.”
― Rina Kent, God of Malice

“Now that she was gone, I began to study her like a stranger, rooting around her belongings in an attempt to rediscover her, trying to bring her back to life in any way that I could. In my grief I was desperate to construe the slightest thing as a sign.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“This isn't the first time I've been in Creigh's Range Rover. He used to drive a Porsche, but a week ago, I complained that it was too small when he told me to sit on his lap, so he changed it two days later.”
― Rina Kent, God of Pain

“You look so innocent, but that head of yours is a fucked-up place, Lisichka. My fucked-up place.”
― Rina Kent, God of Wrath