Ronja

“But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)

“This feeling was different. I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom.
This, and this, and this, i said to him.
I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that i was too slender, or too slow.
This and this and this!”
― Madeline Miller

“But to love Frances was to be always saying goodbye to the girl Frances used to be and falling in love again with the girl Frances was becoming.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Stevie enjoyed Janelle´s brisk, confident positivity and she also liked Nate´s grumpy demeanor. She had a little bit of both of these qualities, and she fit between them very comfortably.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious