June > June's Quotes

“As I lie here in a dimension not my own, on a stark white bed more forbidding than comforting, I try to paint pictures of home in my mind. I want every face, every corner, every shadow, every beam. I want my reality painted over this one until I can't see the blinding white any longer.
-Marguerite”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Something in me belongs to him now, and I feel, I know, that he belongs to me.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“I had been lying to myself, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go." - Belly Conklin”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I don’t even care enough to set the record straight. It was hilarious, what a huge liar she was. She actually believed her own bullshit.”
― Jenny Han

“I’m sick of waiting for karma. Karma can suck it.”
― Jenny Han, Burn for Burn

“It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone and they get a glimpse within you. In that moment you don't belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him and a part of him belongs to you. After that, you can't take it back, no matter how much you want to, no natter how hard you try.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“He kisses like he talks, slow and lazy.”
― Amy James, A Five-Letter Word for Love

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

“You love me. Real or not real?" — "Real." — Peeta Mellark & Katniss”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Rise, red as the dawn.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Life is long if you let it be.”
― Jenny Han , Ashes to Ashes

“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.

“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.

“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“I love Conrad and I probably always would. I would spend my whole life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn’t matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad’s”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“It's comfort enough to know that there are infinite worlds. Infinite possibilities. Now I know somewhere,somehow, Sophia and I had our chance”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“It's our nature. We destroy. It's the constant of our kind. No matter the color of blood, man will always fall.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“I told myself it didn’t matter if I never got to be with you. It was enough just to love you.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“Then, in the morning. I’m going to dismantle this beautiful dream.”
― Amy James, A Five-Letter Word for Love

“Are you a bit insane?”
“Little bit. But you love it.”
― Amy James, A Five-Letter Word for Love

“Life is only as complicated as you make it.”
― Amy James, A Five-Letter Word for Love

“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“When someone does something for you, without you having to ask, it’s just really nice, isn’t it? It shows that they’re thinking about you, even when you aren’t around.”
― Amy James, A Five-Letter Word for Love