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“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because 'what could have been' is much more highly regarded than 'what should have been.' Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“We have no right to children if despair is all we bring with us.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, And the Trees Crept In

“We'd been born with our souls' fingers interlocked. What if we'd never let go?”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“No matter how careful I am, eventually I’ll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Paper Valentine

“Honesty was often just a way of being cruel.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“There are two things you know. One: You were there. Two: You couldn’t have been there.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“Preventative measures are the bane of spontaneous action,” he said. “I prefer the glory of heroism amidst panic.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

“[Inaudible profanity.]”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“He presses the triggers. And like roses in his hands, death blooms.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“To survive you need to learn to hold contradictory things in your head at the same time. I am going to die; I am going to live. There is nothing to fear; be wary of everything.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive