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“I can't believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. 'Yes' I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of this world, this moment. There's just us. Everything that happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I didn't know what to say to him. I loved Conrad and I probably always would. I would spend my life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn't matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad's”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Every muscle in my body turned to fire. My bones felt like they were melting. I wanted to scream, but I didn't have enough strength to open my mouth. I began to sink, lower and lower to the ground, the sky's weight crushing me. 'Fight back' Grover's voice said inside my head, 'Don't give up.' I concentrated on breathing. If I could just keep the sky aloft for a few more seconds. I thought about Bianca, who had given her life so we could get here. If she could do that, I could hold the sky”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse: The Graphic Novel

“Everybody died that wanted to live, and I? I, though I went down to death's door, lived.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin