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“The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“I am a firm believer in serendipity - all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People don't become what they were brought up to be, people become themselves. (p.146)”
― Sarah Schulman

“No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I hate it when you answer a question with a question."
"No you don't, you think it's charming.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“The way you get meaning into life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. (43)”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“In my mind's eye, my chess pieces had grown into lines of dark-skinned men marching forward, being beaten by a white army and crumpling one by one into my father's waiting arms, bloodstains blossoming across their shoulders. (32)”
― Padma Venkatraman, Climbing the Stairs

“If a dog barks at the sun, it does not dim the sun's brightness. (44)”
― Padma Venkatraman, Climbing the Stairs

“Every now and then, I dress my thoughts in the clothing of a poem.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X