Marc Tan

“Then his leg dropped again and he stepped smoothly back into a walk.
There was sadness etched into the lines of his body tonight, something she occasionally recognized from his performances. It gave him that secret pull, an aching vulnerability hidden behind the wink and the sidelong smile.
As if he both desperately needed the spotlight and yet couldn’t bear the
attention. There was no one else here, and yet, even now, he looked like a star, like he couldn’t help but burn so bright that even the air was drawn to him, that the moon yearned to illuminate him.”
― Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke

“There was a restlessness between her ribs, itching and pulling at her heart. A feeling that she was meant to do much more. She and Roxy had gone to see Dead Poets Society a couple years ago, and afterward that quote from Robin Williams’s character had echoed endlessly in Luna’s head: “Make your lives extraordinary.”
― Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

“They traced each other's veins and kissed until their lips were swollen, until they thirsted from something unknown.”
― Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

“Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe we were two magnets the universe had been drawing together all this time.”
― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After