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  • #1
    Cath Crowley
    “For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.”
    Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

  • #2
    Diana Peterfreund
    “Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.”
    Diana Peterfreund, Tap & Gown

  • #3
    Moira Young
    “Yer in my blood, Saba, he says. Yer in my head. Yer in my breath, yer in my bones...gawd help me, yer everywhere. You have bin since the first moment I set eyes on you.”
    Moira Young, Blood Red Road

  • #4
    Melina Marchetta
    “I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”
    Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

  • #5
    Jeri Smith-Ready
    “I can't forget you, any more than I can forget my own name." He kissed me then, and the world which no longer mattered, completely fell away.”
    Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

  • #6
    Gayle Forman
    “You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?”
    Gayle Forman, Where She Went

  • #7
    Gayle Forman
    “It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.”
    Gayle Forman, Where She Went

  • #8
    Jeri Smith-Ready
    “When you look at fainted stars, you'll notice that they often appear brighter from the corner of your eye. Averted vision, we call it.
    Same with the answers you seek, you won't find them by staring until your eyes fall out.
    They'll come when you're look somewhere else.”
    Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

  • #9
    Melina Marchetta
    “He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned in to mine. Get that through your thick skull. Would I like it any other way? Hell, yes, but I don't think that will be happening in my lifetime.”
    Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

  • #10
    Melina Marchetta
    “Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”
    Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

  • #11
    Melina Marchetta
    Never,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.”
    Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

  • #12
    Melina Marchetta
    “If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
    He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
    "Not driving any more.”
    Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

  • #13
    Veronica Roth
    “I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #14
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #15
    Veronica Roth
    “Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'

    'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #16
    Lauren Oliver
    “You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #17
    Lauren Oliver
    “I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #18
    Stephanie Perkins
    “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #19
    Stephanie Perkins
    “I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #20
    Morgan Matson
    “Tomorrow will be better.”
    “But what if it’s not?” I asked.
    “Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”
    Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

  • #21
    Morgan Matson
    “The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.”
    Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

  • #22
    Jandy Nelson
    “I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #23
    Jandy Nelson
    “I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever. You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It’s your solo.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #24
    Justina Chen
    “Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

  • #25
    Justina Chen
    “That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

  • #26
    Justina Chen
    “Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.”
    Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful
    tags: p-355

  • #27
    Suzanne Collins
    “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #28
    Suzanne Collins
    “I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #29
    Suzanne Collins
    “I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #30
    Suzanne Collins
    “You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games



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