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“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“What are you thinking?” I asked. He didn’t answer for a long moment. When he did, he did it with his eyes closed. “All I ever think about is you.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“The two of us together were childhood trauma wrapped in a bow and placed delicately on the doorsteps of every doctor in Louisiana. Everybody knew who we were; everybody knew what was wrong with us. Everybody knew, but nobody could fix it. So I decided to fix it myself.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

“She’s not you.”

“What?”

“She. Isn’t. You.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“You are not what happened to you. You are what you do next.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“When you’re in the room, every single cell in my body – every nerve, every muscle, every breath – is lost in you.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“The rest of the world just disappears for you when you’re reading doesn’t it? Yes, thank God”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I had a cousin who neurotically made playlists for every walking moment of her life, and that slightly obsessive habit had rubbed off on me,”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Would those eyes ever not make me consumed with want, with a claustrophobia that had nothing to do with small spaces and everything to do with the fear of being trapped in a space where she wasn't?”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Better Than You

“I miss your clothes and curly hair. You look best when you're you.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Better Than You

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. —Mexican Proverb”
― Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.

I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Perhaps he would ask me what books mean to me. I would tell him that it means living another life;”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“If you love music—really, truly, love music—then you play it for yourself.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her

“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“There's nothing wrong with being different.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“You opened your eyes, Mare. That's all that matters to me.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen/Glass Sword