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“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“One had followed the rules, and one had not. But the problem with rules... was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time they were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure what side of the line you stood on.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“But the truth is, death is everywhere. Death comes for the roses and the apples, it comes for the mice and the birds. It comes for us all. Why should death stop us from living?”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“As if love is all they need. As if they have been placed under a curse and only love will set them free. She does not see the point in that: love did not save her father from illness and death. It did not save her mother from madness and loss.
The girls say love, but what they really mean is want.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“People love talking about the greatness of the human heart. No bigger than a fist, pumps two thousand gallons of blood a day. Et cetera.
But the human heart is also stupid. At least mine is. No matter how many times I tell it not to hope that Chachu cares about me, it hopes anyway.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“People see what they want to. I'm sick of hoping that they'll see me.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“Anger doesn't really cover what I feel, though. You get angry because someone almost runs you over in the bike lane. Angry because someone cuts in line at Walmart.
What's the word for when someone drinks so much, they are ruining your best friend's life? Or the word for a man so vengeful about his own past that he wants to destroy your future? What's the word for a woman who was sick for months, but refused to go to the doctor until it was too late? The word for a girl at school whose personal mission is to mess with your head?
Anger 's not the right word.
Rage. That's what this feeling is, eating me up.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“Knockdowns happen. People say it's about getting back up again, but I think it's about how you head back into the ring. Make the how counts and do it on your terms. That's what matters.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“But grief isn’t a competition. It’s not an identical pain that we all meet one day when death finds us. It’s a monster, personalized by our love and memories to devour us just so. Grief is suffering, tailored.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“What truly ties us together is not blood but pain. When we love someone and lose them, that loss imprints itself on everyone else we love too.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“Wishes are the dangerous mind games we play with ourselves. The only way to win is not to play.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“When white people say something's 'not about race,' it's usually because it is and they don't wanna talk about it.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“Since when has a man's title prevented his brutality instead of further emboldening it?”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“But that’s the thing. The Legendborn legacy isn’t power; it’s violence.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“And... you're also the most wondrous being I have ever encountered, will ever encounter. And I believe there is nothing in this world that you cannot do.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“Just know, Briana Matthews," he says, "that you are worth this and more.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“(...) everything feels numb and I'm not even sure I want that to change. Maybe "numb" is okay, if this is the price of loving people just to find new ways to lose them.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“You said they ran so I wouldn't have to," I say. "But I think they ran so I could choose one day. And today, I choose me.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“Sel glares at her. "Don't try to be clever."
She laughs. "I don't need to try, fang boy.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“That's what mortal means," I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Falling in
love is really quite simple,” she says. “You want to know the secret?
It’s the same thing we are all doing about life every single day.”

I look to her.

“Forget there’s an ending.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“It doesn't hurt for you to think about your future. We don't have to stop living because we might die. Anyone might die at any given moment, anywhere in the world. We're not an exception. We just see death more regularly than they do.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“You're okay,' Red told her, because Maddy had said it to her before, and maybe it was just the thing you said to people who weren't okay.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“And that was the madness, the cruelty, that life was fragile, and he had so much to love, and spent all his time mourning the loss before he suffered it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power