Areli

“I took his hand and squeezed it, and it felt like the most right thing I had done in a long time. We sat there in the sand, holding hands like it was something we’d been doing all along. It started to rain, soft at first. The first raindrops hit the sand, and the grains beaded up, rolled away. It started to come down harder, and I wanted to get up and go back to the house, but I could tell Conrad didn’t. So I sat there with him, holding his hand and saying nothing. Everything else felt really far away; it was just us.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Beliefs and myths are tied so closely together that you're never sure which is tale and which is true.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“You are so beautiful," he says. "Like a goddess born out of the sea”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“I promised myself then that I wouldn't let fear make me into someone I didn't want to be.”
― Ally Condie, Reached