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“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“I am stronger than my trials.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut.

Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck.

Mama, Mama, put me to bed
I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead.
I met an Invalid, and fell for his art
He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

-From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go.”
― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test

“Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad.”
― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test

“If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime

“It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You've felt it, haven't you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches?”
― Heather Anastasiu, Glitch

“I loved you before I even knew the name for it. Everyday I'd sit beside you, inhaling your scent, looking at your beautiful face. Every night, dreaming about you. You eclipsed everything else. It was you. Always you.”
― Heather Anastasiu, Glitch

“It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.”
― C.J. Redwine, Defiance

“Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.”
― Lisa M. Stasse, The Forsaken

“You can't lose what you never had.”
― Kathleen Peacock, Hemlock

“Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?”
― Rachel Cohn, Beta

“If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“You can say you love me all you want, but if you only ever act like the opposite's true, then I can't trust your words anymore.”
― Aimee Carter, Goddess Interrupted

“For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the ocean lodged in my throat.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”
― Tahereh Mafi

“Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures