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“I don’t understand why the world insists on stuffing kids into boxes we never asked for, and then gets mad when we won’t stay there.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“We’re endgame.”
I wipe a stray tear from the corner of my eye. “What does that mean?”
“It means that we’ll wind up together eventually. It might take a year for us to sort everything out, or two, or ten. Whatever. But it’ll happen.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“But you can’t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. So don’t give up on yourself just yet.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Good thing life is long and high school is short”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“How do you make that choice?" I ask almost to myself. "Between what you need and what you want?" I feel like my sister's going through her own version of that. Kris's eyes are on Cooper, too. "You hope they become the same thing, I guess.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Who do you want to be? The guy who goes along or the guy who stands up? This is the time to decide.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“People who never get told no are so bad at hearing it.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“The easiest way to steal something, is for it to be given willingly.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Sometimes your heart is the only thing worth listening to.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken back. What am I?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Over everything, I choose you”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Impossible is my specialty.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“You have my heart, Jest. I don't know if you deserve it or not. I can't tell if you're a hero or a villain, but it doesn't seem to matter. Either way, my heart is yours.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Perhaps we know each other in the future and you’re only remembering backward.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Her mother sneered. “Then you are a fool.”

“Good. I’ve become rather fond of fools.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Real men wear floral when trespassing”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“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

“But sometimes remembering isn’t for yourself, sometimes you do it just to make someone else smile. Those lies were allowed.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I'm not sure I'm the good girl i once thought i was . I've lost her along the way”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“He smiled, put his hands on the back of her neck, fingers in her hair, and leaned in to press his forehead against hers. He’d told her before that he did it to take away half her sadness, half her headache, half her nerves before her Columbia interview. Because half less of a bad thing meant there was room for half good.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“women can be just as dangerous as men.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Pip wished she was strong enough, but she’d learned that she wasn’t invincible; she too could break.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I’m irrationally serious.” Pip smiled, holding the Tupperware out to him. “And I made muffins.” “Like bribery muffins?” “That’s what the recipe said, yeah.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder