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“I'm trying to say that I think doing what you feel can't always be easy, but at least you're being true to yourself.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“Everything's simpler without constraints.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“The human brain can only be stretched so far before it breaks.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“Second chances are not the same as forgiveness.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“No matter how obvious something may seem, there are two sides to every story.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“People have all sorts of pasts, sometimes dark or dreary, but perhaps the actions they choose in the present are the ones that carry the most weight.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“Maybe I felt something because I'm always looking for feelings. Without them, I don't know how to act.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“That word. I would have given anything to hear her say it over the summer, to have had the chance to say it back, but now, more than ever, I understand its true power. How it can make you ache as much as it can make you soar. How it shouldn't be said in return unless you mean it as deeply as the speaker. And that's not something you can ever know. Not truly. There's too much blind faith involved and that word is always, always a risk. You'll get hurt. Or the other person will. You'll stomp on someone's heart without meaning to. Loving is foolish and risky, like trying to raise a building in a bog. Emotions don't make strong foundations.”
― Erin Bowman, Frozen

“She was finally beginning to understand what her mother had meant––how opening up can make you vulnerable.”
― Erin Bowman, Stolen

“...and I need to hear that there are situations where logic and reason don't apply, that sometimes an ugly action is a necessary one.”
― Erin Bowman, Frozen

“Nothing to fear but fear itself.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“Hawaii,” Quinn began saying, as Little Pete howled. “Hawaii.” “Why you keep saying Hawaii, man?” Edilio had asked him. “If he freaks and decides to take us on a Little Pete magical mystery tour, I want it to be Hawaii, not back to Astrid’s house.” Edilio thought that over for a while. “I’m down with that. Hawaii, L. P., Hawaii.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. “Don’t worry: I won’t let you fall off.”

“Yeah? Then why did you bring the helmet?”

Brianna tossed it to him. “In case you fall off.”
― Michael Grant, Hunger

“No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'.”
― Michael Grant, Hunger

“I think you need to look in the mirror if you think that's gorgeous"
"Ha," Andrew said, grinning.
"We"re identical." Adam shook his head at his twin. "He's insulting both of us, you idiot”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Oblivion

“I called up Andrew, Adam’s twin and the Thompson brother who matched me in temperament and personality. In other words, we were fucking balls of sunshine.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Oblivion

“Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrial
highway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

“I've been waiting a long time to run tests on someone like you, " he said to Daemon, voice high-pitched.
Daemon arched a brow. "Another fanboy. I have them everywhere."
I muttered, "Only you would see that as a good thing."
He shot me a grin.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

“I’m Dee Black. I’m the sister of the douchebag known as Daemon.” She smiled brightly. “But you probably already know that.”
“That’s he’s a douchebag or that he’s your brother?” Archer asked innocently. “The answer is yes to both.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

“You could be knocked down a peg or two.”
… “Baby, I’m so far up the latter there aren’t any pegs under me to be knocked down.
“Wow,” she said. “That’s a new one.”
“You loved it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

“Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment
when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude