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“The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”

I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”

He grins up at me. “They missed.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“In fact, it’s hardly a gift at all. It’s a book, and my sister and I think of a book as a necessity rather than a luxury.”
― Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
“It sets a dangerous precedent.”
“For avoiding pain?”
“For avoiding life.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Right now is the time in life that teaches you you’ll get through it even if you hate it.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Being an artist is sometimes about not being afraid to do it badly first.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Whenever someone asks me what my Enneagram is, I’m like, ‘Whichever is the lazy, affectionate, cheese-loving one.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“I was an upbeat kid, and when I wanted to feel bad, he let me feel bad. The only thing he ever said was “It’ll get better.” And he was never wrong.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Because that’s what life is—joy peppered by loss. It’s why you get a dog. And then you get another dog.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“When I’m quiet I can hear my heart yearning for impossible things. I want a perfectly pared-down home, and I want to hang on to every scrap of the past. I want a break from my kids without missing a single minute of their lives. I long for a partnership, and I long for freedom. I long to be enmeshed with someone without losing myself. I want all of it. Maybe”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“You can’t just keep doing what you’re doing and wait for it to turn into something happy. You kind of have to look for the happy things along the way.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“And now I can never unknow the truest true thing - the intensity of the love you feel will match the intensity of its loss. This is practically physics.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Life’s going to do what life’s going to do, Alice. You might as well have a dog.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Loving can hurt, and I want to do it anyway.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“You don't have to be completely healed to be everything I want. To be mine. I want every part of you, you silly infuriating woman. I love the parts of you I haven't even met yet.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“I'd rather have a fraction of you than all
of someone else.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“What are you doing?” she murmurs, as he drops back into his swivel chair lazily. He presses the felt tip of the marker to her inner right thigh and starts writing. “Giving you my address,” he says.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“If you were a book I’d highlight half your lines.”
― Paige Toon, Seven Summers

“SOMETIMES, A BOOK CAN change your life. It’s hard to explain that to someone who doesn’t read, or who has never felt their heart bend so strongly toward a story that it might just snap in two. Some books are a comfort, some a reprieve, others a vacation, a lesson, a heartbreak.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“Sometimes, that’s how it happens. Sometimes your favorite book just hits you out of the blue like a bolt of lightning.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“In my next life, I’d like to be a bookstore cat. Sunlight and books and naps.” “I dunno, I think you could do that in this life.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“It wasn’t the end that mattered, but every word leading up to it.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“There are beautiful things that came out of this tragedy.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“A wise woman once told me, if I can't talk about it, I shouldn't be doing it.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“But the way to handle problematic things isn’t to just pretend they aren’t there. It’s good to see it and feel this way. Also, you can still be impressed with the artistry. Both things can be true.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You