Najlaa

“Lolita,” he said, turning my book over in his hands. His eyes widened over the pink-lipped mouth on the cover, then handed it to me. Our fingers brushed, and a warm current coursed through them. My heart thundered so loud he could probably hear it.
“So,” he said, his eyes meeting mine. “You’re a smuthound with daddy issues?” The corner of his mouth turned up in a slow, condescending smile.
I wanted to smack it off his face. “Well, you’re quoting it. And incorrectly, by the way. So what does that make you?”
His half-smile morphed into a whole grin. “Oh, I’m definitely a smuthound with daddy issues.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Road to Grace

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places