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“Microwave him.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“And she knew then how it must feel to want to live desperately.”
― Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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

“Why hadn't she ever stopped to think how lucky she was? All those people who cared about her, whether she deserved them or not.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“You can't just go round murdering people. There are rules, Nimona.”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

“I think we all get to decide what good and bad and right and wrong mean to us, not what we’re told to accept.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“…what the President meant in the intercepted chat. This was, uh, nothing but a routine translation problem. It has to be understood, that…It has to be understood that when the President referred to the Prime Minister of the Global Alliance as a ‘big sh*thead,’ what he was trying to convey was, uh—this is an American idiom used to praise people, by referring to the sheer fertilizing power of their thoughts. The President meant to say that the Prime Minister’s head was fertile, just full of these nutrients where ideas can grow. It really was a compliment…”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

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

“Fuck likeable. You know who's likeable? People like Max Hastings who walk into a courtroom with fake glasses and charm their way out. I don't want to be like that.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Shewasgoingtodieshewasgoingtodieshewasdeadshewasdeadshewasgoingtodie”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“Pass the damn ham, please.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“Is it normal for one person to have this many enemies? I’m the problem, aren’t I?How did it get so late already?I understand why they all hate me.I might hate me too.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“Oh come on! That is not how intestines look like!”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

“I’m a ticking time bomb, Ravi. I can’t have the people I love near me when it goes off. Especially not you.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“Everything is the universe is either a jelly bean or not a jelly bean!”
― Silly Willy, Silly Facts for Silly Kids.: Fun trivia book for children age 4-9

“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

“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

“I began choosing isolation of my own accord. Maybe so I could convince myself I wasn’t really alone.”
― Yoshitoki Oima, A Silent Voice, Vol. 1

“Have you ever once said how you really feel deep down in your gut?”
― Yoshitoki Oima, A Silent Voice, Vol. 1

“Just what is a friend anyway? When do people start seeing each other as friends? When they first talk alone? When they exchange contact information? When they take a photo together? I’ll bet they know... what friends are.”
― Yoshitoki Oima, 聲の形 2 [Koe no Katachi 2]

“Bwaha! As long as you have love and a little masochism in you, you can beat a little thing like an allergy, can you not?”
― Yoshitoki Oima, 聲の形 3 [Koe no Katachi 3]

“B-but', Qibli choked out, 'I w-want my m-mother t-to—'

'To want and to care for you?' Thorn said, even more softly. 'I know. I'm sorry she doesn't. But your life doesn't have to be like this. Come with me and you'll see.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkness of Dragons

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are a history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me, none are exactly the same. I am parched parchment. I have lines. I have holes. Get me wet, and I melt. Light me on fire, and I burn. Take me in hardened hands, and I crumple. I tear. I am but paper. Brittle and thin.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“You’re too precious to put into words. I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“When something is broken, you can put it back together. It may not fit quite the same, or work like it did once before, but that doesn't mean it's no longer useful.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea