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  • #1
    Lynn Painter
    “I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn you cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you.”
    Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies
    tags: love

  • #2
    Lynn Painter
    “Music made everything better.”
    Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

  • #3
    Lynn Painter
    “Also—thanks to Taylor Swift, for writing songs that feel like books.”
    Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

  • #4
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #5
    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #6
    “Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
    No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #7
    “Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #8
    Delia Owens
    “I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #9
    Delia Owens
    “His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #10
    Delia Owens
    “Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #11
    Delia Owens
    “If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #12
    Ally Condie
    “Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #13
    Ally Condie
    “I remember what Anna called the three of us.
    The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic.
    They are in all of us. I believe this. They every person might have a way to fly, a line of poetry to put down for others to see, a hand to heal.”
    ally condie, Reached

  • #14
    Stephanie Garber
    “Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
    Stephanie Garber, Caraval

  • #15
    Stephanie Garber
    “Every good story needs a villain.
    But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
    Stephanie Garber, Legendary

  • #16
    Stephanie Garber
    “She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
    Stephanie Garber, Caraval

  • #17
    Stephanie Garber
    “Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether. Elusive, difficult to hold on to. But not much is needed.”
    Stephanie Garber, Caraval

  • #18
    Stephanie Garber
    “Welcome, welcome to Caraval! The grandest show on land or by sea. Inside you’ll experience more wonders than most people see in a lifetime. You can sip magic from a cup and buy dreams in a bottle. But before you fully enter into our world, you must remember it’s all a game.”
    Stephanie Garber, Caraval

  • #19
    Stephanie Garber
    “So,’ she said cautiously, 'is all this your way of telling me you’re the villain?’
    His chuckle was dark. 'I’m definitely not the hero.’
    'I already knew that,’ Tella said. 'It’s my story, so clearly I’m the hero.”
    Stephanie Garber, Legendary

  • #20
    Stephanie Garber
    “[...] After I got mauled by the wolf, my scars weren't sexy scars-"
    "He just said sexy scars," Jacks drawled. "Are you really listening to this?”
    Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

  • #21
    Stephanie Garber
    “Where were you?” she asked.
    “I was killing innocent maidens and kicking puppies.”
    “Jacks, that’s not funny.”
    Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

  • #22
    “Imagine me
    master of my own universe
    I am everything I ever dreamed of”
    Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

  • #23
    Stephanie Garber
    “Jacks no longer felt like her enemy, he felt like her home.”
    Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

  • #24
    Stephanie Garber
    “Glad to know you're thinking about me when you kiss your husband.”
    Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

  • #25
    Chloe Walsh
    “God loves a trier,” Casey agreed, eyes dancing with mischief. “But Aoife loves Joey.”
    Chloe Walsh, Redeeming 6



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