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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
    tags: freaks, high-school, zombies
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
    tags: brave, good, inspirational, laurie-halse-anderson, motivational, scared, the-impossible-knife-of-memory
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
    tags: coping, encouragement, loneliness, memories, safe, scared, strength
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “It’s always there—fear—and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
    tags: life, sucks
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battle field in France and rode home in a ship that crawled across the ocean slowly so he could catch his breath. I get on a plane in hell and get off, hours later, at home. I try to ignore death, but she's got her arm around my waist waiting to poison everything I touch.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Why do you have such a crappy attitude about math?"
    "I don't. I have a crappy attitude about everything.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
    tags: attitude, math
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    Rick Yancey
    “Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
    Hell no.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, fiction, horror, humanity, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
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    Rick Yancey
    “When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.
    And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.
    The Cassie who kills.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: aliens, apocalypse, cassie
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    Rick Yancey
    “God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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    Rick Yancey
    “You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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    Rick Yancey
    “I am the one,
    Not Running,
    Not Staying,
    But FACING”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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    Rick Yancey
    “It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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    Rick Yancey
    “Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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    Rick Yancey
    “That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with no humanity.

    In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
    tags: humanity, rick-yancey, the-infinite-sea
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    Rick Yancey
    “No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house cards collapses.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
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    Rick Yancey
    “Something weird," Ben said. "You would think, with ninety-nine percent of us gone, the two percent would get along better."
    Um, that would be one percent, Parish.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
    tags: ben, cassie
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    Rick Yancey
    “I found you, but in finding you, I lost myself.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
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    Rick Yancey
    “Somentimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault.You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
    tags: cassie-sullivan, ringer
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    Rick Yancey
    “´Because love is irrational,´ I tell Vosh. ´It doesn´t follow rules. Not even its own rules. Love is the one thing in the universe that´s unpredictable.´”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
    tags: rick-yancey, ringer, the-infinite-sea
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    Rick Yancey
    “Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten steel.
    I am humanity
    He crawled.
    I am humanity.
    He fell.
    I am humanity.
    He got up.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
    tags: humanity, the-infinite-sea
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    Rick Yancey
    “No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house of cards collapses.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
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    Rick Yancey
    “To truly pass, you must overcome what cannot be overcome.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: courage, life, pain, strength, suffering
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: fools, lies, pretending, pretense, truth
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “I wept because i had no shoes,
    until i met a man who had no feet.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “Guilt is a hunter.
    Fate is a hunter.
    Shame is a hunter.
    Fear is a hunter.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
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    Stephanie Kuehn
    “You have a history of starving yourself," he says gently.

    I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about.”
    ― Stephanie Kuehn, Charm & Strange
    tags: depression, doctors, eating-disorders, sadness
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    Stephanie Kuehn
    “She loves us all."
    "Then why doesn't she act like it?"
    "Because love doesn't always look nice.”
    ― Stephanie Kuehn, Charm & Strange
    tags: love, nice
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