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“He’d taken the dog home that night, just calling him the name of the product as a stopgap, even though I’d told my dad in no uncertain terms not to do this, in case the dog got attached to it. Which of course he did, so now we were stuck with it. And while my first instinct was to be mad about the fact that I hadn’t had a dog my whole childhood, and that my dad got one basically the second I was out of the house, I was just so won over by his cute face and high-pitched bark and whappy tail, it was impossible to be mad. The dog was so cute that with all the updates and pictures I was getting, it had taken all my self-control not to clean out my savings and book a flight home immediately to cuddle him. But my dad assured me that he would be there waiting for me when I came home for Christmas. And when I’d finally met him three days earlier, Zyrtec the dog had more than lived up to expectations.”
― Morgan Matson, The Ballad of Darcy and Russell

“This might be my favorite romance book, but we’re my favorite love story.”
― Hannah Grace, Daydream

“For ten years I thought I was preparing to destroy you, when really I was preparing to love you.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“Come on, bro, we have to get out of here— This isn’t a fair fight—”
-Kenji Kishimoto

“You go,” he says, clutching his side. “Go find Nazeera, and then find the other kids. I’ll be fine.”
-Aaron Warner

“You’re not going to be fine,” I hiss. “She’s going to kill you.”
-Kenji Kishimoto

“That’s fine, too.”
-Aaron Warner”
― Taherah Mafi