JY Lim

“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back.
Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone.
Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick.
Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead.

- A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.”
― Holly Golightly

“The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood.

-From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium