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“Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We’re all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

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

“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“People leave, Brett. It's not our fault got not giving them a reason to stay. It's their fault for not finding one. You know?”
― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling

“Nature is an inherently forward beast; footsteps disappear, past hurts fade.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

But sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.

That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"

I raise my eyebrows.

She raises hers, too, mimicking me.

"The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“...you can love some all you want, but you can't go into their past and become a part of their formative years.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it’s their birthday because Facebook told them.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“No, please. It's – you're allowed to hurt. It's not a contest.”
― C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses

“Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“We're in this together, right?" he whispers. "You and me? You want to be here, yeah?" There's guilt in his questions. "Yes," I reply. "I chose this." Day pulls me close enough for our noses to touch. "I love you.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“He is beauty, inside and out.
He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.
He is my light.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.(Shakespeare)

Present, I fled him. But no matter the distance between us, I kept coming back to him. It all kept coming back to him.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“How can people decide who they want to spend the rest of their life with at this age? I can’t even decide what to have for dinner! I can’t decide if I want to be an actor, even though I’ve already got 35,000 dollars in student loans telling me I sure as hell better want to be an
actor.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“I am in love with this burrito. I would marry it if I didn’t want to eat it so badly.”
“The tragedy of true love,” Cade whispered.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“Sometimes, it's the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“We want what we can't have. It's human nature.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It