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  • #1
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #2
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “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

  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “He broke up with me."
    "Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box."
    "No one has a boom box anymore. That was the eighties.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #4
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “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

  • #5
    “Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not.
    That's completely asinine.
    The truth is that adults love in different ways, not the only way.”
    J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

  • #6
    “We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”
    Jenny Han
    tags: love

  • #7
    Sarah Beth Durst
    “You’re a teenage boy. I have boobs. What part of the equation is missing?”
    Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

  • #8
    Abbi Glines
    “You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air."
    I frowned at him. "Your air?"
    He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you..”
    Abbi Glines, Breathe

  • #9
    Wendy Higgins
    “Besides, unrequited love is one of those things that all teen-agers have to go through, right?”
    Wendy Higgins, Sweet Evil

  • #10
    Elizabeth Scott
    “I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.”
    Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #12
    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

  • #13
    Deb Caletti
    “Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.”
    Albert Camus

  • #15
    Dennis Lehane
    “It was the lack of a clear reason that got to her most, & it stabbed her that a relationship that had once seemed unbreakable could slip apart so easily due to nothing more than time, family turmoil, & growth spurts.”
    Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality to family or friends. Something can always be contrived.”
    Jane Austen

  • #17
    Kristin Hannah
    “A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. ”
    Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #19
    Trenton Lee Stewart
    “Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”
    Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

  • #20
    Ella Fox
    “You need to decide to stop letting their crazy box you in.”
    Ella Fox, Broken Hart

  • #21
    Cassandra Clare
    “All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
    "Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #22
    Marilynne Robinson
    “Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.”
    Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

  • #23
    Jenny Valentine
    “I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose.
    And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.”
    Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup

  • #24
    Lisa De Jong
    “I learned a long time ago that most of my family and friends had plastic hearts. Plastic hearts are made so they cannot be broken. Cracked maybe, but never broken.”
    Lisa De Jong, Plastic Hearts

  • #25
    Ella Fox
    “You don’t see yourself clearly, but I do. You’re the man that I want, and I’m fighting for you, fighting for us.”
    Ella Fox, Broken Hart

  • #26
    Julian Barnes
    “This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...”
    Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

  • #27
    Lauren Gilley
    “It was broken. It was haunted. Just like her.
    But it had bones, and it had memories, and it had the ability to be something strong again. Just like her.”
    Lauren Gilley, Fix You

  • #28
    Abraham   Verghese
    “But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”
    Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

  • #29
    Mike L. Hopper
    “Because deep down you know that someone needs to keep you out of trouble.”
    Mike L. Hopper, Broken Point

  • #30
    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you believed about them was a lie, you wouldn’t want to accept it or make amends.”
    Shannon L. Alder



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