Lollita

“He loved her.
Jay Heaton, her best friend since childhood was in love with her. He didn't say it but she knew that it was true.
And the part that really freaked her out, the part that caught her completely off guard, is that he wasn't alone. Because even though she'd been denying it for a long, long time, it had always been there... waiting beneath the surface of their friendship. And now that it was out there was no going back.
And it was so weird to even be thinking it but...... she was in love with him too.”
― Kimberly Derting, The Body Finder

“I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“From the moment you stepped into the nevernever, you've been my undoing. I should never have agreed to that contract."

-Ash”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Daughter