Jordan Bacon

“It was too hot inside the hospital and the floors squeaked. There was a hand-gel dispenser outside the ward, and a big yellow sign above it read Do Not Drink. Did people actually drink sanitizing hand gel? I supposed they must--hence the sign. Part of me, a very small sliver, briefly considered dipping my head to taste a drop, purely because I'd been ordered not to. No, Eleanor, I told myself. Curb your rebellious tendencies. Stick to tea, coffee, and vodka.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I don't want just a night or a week or a month with you. I want you all the time. I like you better than calculus, and math is the only thing that unites the universe.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“I cannot explain love, he said. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or forth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. That you were the center of everything I did and felt and thought.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess, Chapter 18

“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”
― Karin Slaughter