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“So I balanced the weight of my past against the promise of my future.”
― J. Kenner, Complete Me

“I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else.”
― Sylvia Day, Reflected in You

“Sometimes you have to leave what you know to find things you never knew about,”
― Stephanie Evelyn, The Cult Called Freedom House

“I wished I lived in a world where I didn’t know violence intimately, but I’d seen more than my fair share, given the work I did.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Perfect Child

“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“They weren’t bad books,” Phin countered patiently. “They were books that you didn’t enjoy. It’s not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a ‘good book’ for someone.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

“amazing how boring you can get away with being when you’re pretty. No one seems to notice. When you’re pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid. I have a dark past and I have dark thoughts. I do dark things and I scare myself sometimes. I wake in the middle of the night and I’ve twisted myself”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“But what does it matter if I forget a story after a month as long as I enjoy it while I’m reading it?”
― Darcy Coates, The Folcroft Ghosts

“Mistakes make us human; don’t torture yourself over a choice you made four years ago. If you think you were wrong, make a plan to change what you can. Action is good. Choices are good. But guilt on its own never fixed anyone’s problem.”
― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Blackwood House

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
― Darcy Coates, Hunted

“There are three parts to a person: a body, a spirit, and a soul. When the body dies, the soul goes into whatever is waiting for us after death. But the spirit can sometimes get stuck behind. That’s what a ghost is: a spirit anchored to earth by residual energy. The soul, the part that goes to the afterlife, is our core person—the identity we were born with. The spirit is our emotions, our temperament, our intelligence—the parts of us that are created and changed by our time on earth. So, when a ghost is formed, it’s missing both the soul and the body that it needs to be a full human. It’s like an echo of what it once was.”
― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt

“Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’ll die horribly in the void of space.”
― Darcy Coates, Craven Manor

“Do not mistake hardheartedness for strength. To live in this world and to hold on to your humanity, your compassion, your joy—I believe that is strength. And more valuable than being callous enough that death never haunts you.”
― Darcy Coates, Secrets in the Dark

“I refused to lose my heart to someone who was incapable of giving me his.”
― Helen Hardt, Craving

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

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“kiss 1000 with Poppymin.
When she returned home.
My heart completely burst.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Why be miserable when you can be happy? It’s an obvious choice to me.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“When you’re near, my heart doesn’t sigh, it soars,”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Maybe we’re like the cherry blossom, Rune. Like shooting stars. Maybe we loved too much too young and burned so bright that we had to fade out.” She pointed behind us, to the blossom grove. “Extreme beauty, quick death. We had this love long enough to teach us a lesson. To show us how capable of love we truly are.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Excuses are poison,” Ed repeated. “Doing the right thing is hard. Talking yourself out of it is easy.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“It is not such a hard thing, is it - to die for your friends.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“I'd walk into the burning heart of hell itself to find you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Nameless is my price.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“A gift.
A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn