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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“You're just here for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride.
--Max's Voice”
― James Patterson

“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“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

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“I would rather be punished for making the right decision than live with the guilt of making the wrong one for the rest of my life.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“Don’t you see? A pretty girl must please the world. But an ugly girl? She’s free to please herself.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

“They were not pretty, these women. Pretty did not begin to describe them.
They were shrewd. Powerful. Wily. Proud. Dangerous.
They were strong.
There were brave.
They were beautiful.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“There’s no reason to worry.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Lots of things are impossible,” she said softly. “Until they’re not.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Dark Tide

“good warrior knows when to lose a battle so she can live to fight the war.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Dark Tide

“My choice", he'd whispered, taking her hand. "Mine. Not theirs.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Deep Blue

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“A dreamer," scorns her mother.
"A dreamer," mourns her father.
"A dreamer," warns Estele.
Still, it does not seem such a bad word..”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend," he says. "The one who will memorise the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body, Juliette-”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I am so tired, love.I'm so very,very tired.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. sometimes it just won't let go.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love and gelato.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“Hey, I just thought of something.”
“What?”
“When we’re together, we make one whole Italian.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“But I didn’t finish because he dived on me and we kissed. Like really, really kissed. And it turns out I’d been waiting absolutely my entire life to be kissed by Lorenzo Ferrara in an American cemetery in the middle of Italy.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“There’s not much to be afraid of when you’ve already lost everything that matters.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crave

“I’ll never make you choose, Grace. How could I when I know that you’d never choose me?”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“There’s so much to unpack there that I don’t even know where to start. And for once, Hudson is completely silent, absolutely no help at all. The traitor.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“If heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“It’s written all over his face—he would disintegrate anyone—everyone—if it means saving me. He would literally set fire to the world.”
― Tracy Wolff, Covet

“Because for me, Hudson’s love is endless.”
― Tracy Wolff, Covet

“I love you.”
For one second, he looks startled, his blue eyes going wide and wild as they search my face for I don’t know what. But then that damn dimple of his comes out to play as he grins and grins and grins. But all he says is, “I know.”
― Tracy Wolff, Covet