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“Make a mess. Clean it up.”
― Keri Smith

“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

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .”
― Nicholas Sparks

“This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

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

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.”
― Meg Cabot, Teen Idol: A Young Adult Novel of High School Secrets, Hollywood Stars, and Tabloid Chaos

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.”
― Maggie Kuhn

“No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“You know what we need?"

"A new plan?" asked Lissa.

"A miracle?" asked Eddie.

I paused and glared at them both before responding. Since when had they become the comedians here? "No.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I'm so delirious I actually dare to believe it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I know I’m not your first anything, but I hope that I’ll be your last everything.”
― J.A. Redmerski, Seeds of Iniquity

“I will do everything in my power to keep you safe, but it’s not a guarantee because no matter how much you trust me, you should never, under any circumstances trust anyone fully. In the end, you can only trust yourself. I am not your hero. I am not the other half of your soul who could never let anything bad ever happen to you. Trust your instincts first always, and me, if you choose, last”
― J.A. Redmerski, Killing Sarai

“The pain of being near her and knowing that I can’t give in to my feelings for her, is the worst kind of pain I’ve ever felt.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal

“He loves me without having to say it. He cherishes me without having to prove it. When he touches me I know what he's thinking, how he truly feels beneath that mask he wears in the face of others. I'm the only soul he's ever let into his life completely. And the only one he'll never let go.”
― J A Redmerski, Reviving Izabel

“Beautiful but defeated and damaged. Damaged for the rest of her life and no amount of emotional mutilation will ever fully give her back her innocence. The girl is a ticking time bomb, a danger to herself and very possibly to others. I wasn’t sure before, but now I know that she is more unstable than I ever could have imagined. And because she is so skilled at hiding it, not only from me but also from herself, she is more dangerous than I am.”
― J.A. Redmerski, Killing Sarai

“I’m not just sleeping with an assassin. I’ve grown very attached to one.”
― J.A. Redmerski, Reviving Izabel

“Because love is the greatest scam of all time. And because as much as I fucking love you, I hate you for inflicting it upon me!”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal

“all I want to do is pull her against me and hold her until we both die.”
― J.A. Redmerski, Reviving Izabel