“Give somebody the keys to your mind, you’d better make sure you trust them.”
― The Mirror House Girls
― The Mirror House Girls
“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“No,” he says quietly. “In every universe, it’s you for me. Even if it’s not me for you.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug. He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I’ll remember how he died. Fairy tale? No. But I’m not giving up on a better ending. It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. It’s about way more than that though. It’s about Seven. Sekani. Kenya. DeVante. It’s also about Oscar. Aiyana. Trayvon.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“You’re very dear, Linus Baker. There’s a surface to you that’s hard but cracked. Dig a little deeper, and there is all this life teeming wildly. It’s a conundrum.” He flushed. “I don’t know about all that.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
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