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“When I reached her, she was a star, pulling me into her orbit”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“You make people interested in you by keeping secrets, not by passing them out like candy at Halloween.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I was lying on the tracks under a train I was in love with.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I couldn't say, "I lost the best thing that ever happened to me." Wasn't that punishment enough?”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“You need to figure out how to live here or you need to get the hell out.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“For the first time in my life, I stopped. It wasn’t my story to tell.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“She “loved me” in quotations She kissed me in bold I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps She left with an ellipsis . . .”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“I would never let anyone else borrow my heart if I know there’s a chance in hell you might want it back.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“I pledge myself to the Rose Society until the end of my days, to use my eyes to see all that happens, my tongue to woo others to our side, my ears to hear every secret, my hands to crush my enemies. I will do everything in my power to destroy all who stand in my way.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“In the silence, I sit alone on my throne and wait eagerly for all the satisfaction and triumph to hit me. I wait, and wait, and wait.

But it doesn't come.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“What is so great about being good?”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“None of us are saints. We can all do better.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“We are doomed to be forever young.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“Every bone in my body yearns to keep this boy safe, always.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“The first time Raffaele ever saw Adelina, it was a stormy-wracked night that changed her life and, indeed, the world. He recalls looking down from the window in his Dalia lodging to see a girl with silver-bright hair, conjuring an illusion of darkness such that he had never seen. He remembers the day she first came to his chambers in Estenzia, when Enzo was still alive and she was still innocent, and the way she looked up at him with her uncertain, damaged gaze. He remembers her test, and what he said to Enzo that night. How long ago that had been. How he had judged her wrongly.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“If you are very quiet and do not look away, you may see the brightest star in the constellation glow steadily brighter. It brightens until it overwhelms every other star in the sky, brightens until it seems to touch the ground, and then the glow is gone, and in its place is a girl.

Her hair and lashes are painted a shifting silver, and a scar crosses one side of her face. She is dressed in Sealand silk and a necklace of sapphire . Some say that, once upon a time, she had a prince, a father, a society of friends. Others say that she was once a wicked queen ,a worker of illusions, a girl who brought darkness across the lands. Stilll others say that she once had a sister, and that she loved her dearly. Perhaps all of these are true.

She walks to the boy, tilts her head up at him, and smiles. He bends down to kiss her. Then he helps her onto the horse, and she rides away with him to a faraway place, until they can no longer be seen.

These are only rumour,of course, and make little more than a story to tell round a fire. But it is told. And thus they live on.
—“The Midnight Star,” a folktale”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star