Lauren

“But in that moment, I knew it wasn't just the poison that was killing her. It was her fathers final blow. Zoë had known all along that the Oracle's prophecy was about her: she would die by a parent's hand. And yet she'd taken the quest anyway. She had chosen to save me, and Atlas's fury had broken her inside.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.
She stops now. Leans over me so that wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead.
You still have a family, she whispers.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I am on the highest branch.
We are written in paint.
I believe in signs.
The glow of Ultraviolet.
A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I never really bought in Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay