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“You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“why do you have to fix the salad? who broke it? i didn't touch it. did you break the salad, mom? if you did, YOU'D BETTER FIX IT!”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?”
― David Levithan, Invisibility

“It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.”
― David Levithan, Invisibility

“and i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I have to rely on Laurie to know that I wish he had been with me the last time I was on the roof. I have to trust that he knows I'm glad that I stayed.”
― David Levithan, Invisibility

“Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.”
― Lauren Oliver, Rooms

“This isn't your time to die, son. It's not. You have a work to do. you have to prove to them that my baby is no killer. You have to show them. You are a beacon. You are the light. Don't you listen to that fool devil telling you to give up. I didn't raise no child of mine to give up when things get tough. Your life isn't your life to take. It belongs to God. You have a work to do. Hard work. I'm going to talk at you all night long if I have to and all day and all night again, and I will never stop until you know who you are. You were not born to die in this cell. God has a purpose for you. He has a purpose for all of us. I've served my purpose.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“The bastards had done their job well.”
― Stephen Charles Gould

“Only privileged men romanticize tragedy”
― Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept