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“Family

"Even though you're stuck with them, at the same time they're also stuck with you.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“Nice socks.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street

“We can start over. We just have to make sure there is a new beginning to look forward to.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Forever Song

“Depression is pain in its purest form.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“I never like to see someone hurting, but I admit whenever I heard someone play the depression card, I'd roll my eyes and go about my business.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“Sometimes girls let that overly sympathetic gene get the best of them.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“You're still human and the moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature. Acting on it is a whole other story and that's where I draw the line.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“-let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it... starts to make things darker.”
― J.A. Redmerski

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
― Madonna

“If you have to fight over a guy, he’s not worth it. Go for the one who’s waiting for you.”
― K.A. Tucker, Five Ways to Fall

“I guess even smart girls can make a clusterfuck of their lives, can't they?”
― K.A. Tucker, Five Ways to Fall

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Because that’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“The world... it is a different place when one has no home, no family.”
― Sasha Summers, Medusa, A Love Story

“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.
But I do not.
I do not.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“The rain comes down harder, darkness falls. We don't care. Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Do you imagine that simply because one madman is gone, there are no more? Yes, Robespierre is dead. And Marat. Saint-Just. Hébert. But there are always more, waiting on the wings. History always throws off these power-hungry monsters. It’s because of people like them that this little boy suffers.”
I think about another Max. And another little boy. I remember the future. “Maximilien R. Peters! Incorruptible, ineluctable, and indestructible! It’s time to start the revolution, baby!” he shouted. I remember the other people who lived with him in the Charles. Poor people, damaged people. I think of how I walked past them every day, not seeing them, not caring. Until it was too late.
And I think of how these people, Amadé’s friends, amuse themselves all night long with mannered dances and witty conversation, shutting themselves off from the world, while a helpless child slowly dies.
And I say, “No, not because of Robespierre and Marat. Or people like them. Because of people like us.”
― Jennifer Donnelly

“Because a kiss should be born from love, and want, and need. A kiss should be beautiful, something a girl can hold on to for the rest of her life, to pull out in her memory whenever she wants butterflies to come back.”
― Heather Lyons

“The truth is, yes, you were... altered for many years. But I think the worst thing you could do is pretend like it never happened. It did. Sometimes, terrible, awful things happen to people, things you can't predict or wish for differently that happen just the same. But you can't let them consume you. You can't wish it away. All you can do is pray you've learned from it, that it's made you stronger, and that you will move on. I bought this dress because it's beautiful, but also because it's you. I felt like if you wore it, embraced who you are and what you've been and done... it will help you move on.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“You shouldn’t have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“I’m trying to find myself.” Greer grins. “That, my dear, is the scariest thing you’re ever going to do.” “Why is that?” “Because you might not like what you find.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“But you are very good at passion. And if you have enough passion, you can almost learn to do anything well.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love