Shaydy

“Oscar inspected the gun. He seemed about as enthusiastic about learning to use a new weapon as Adrian was.
'Come on,' said Adrian, raising his gun again. 'I'll buy you a pizza if you hit a bull's-eye before I do.'
Ten seconds later, he owed Oscar a pizza.
Adrian groaned.”
― Marissa Meyer, Archenemies

“It couldn't exactly be described as flying, what the two were doing. They were up even with the roofline, but they were barely moving - circling like cats, staring at each other with extraordinary intensity. The air fairly throbbed between them, and Kaz felt it like a punch in the gut.
Then Karou attacked the guy, and he felt much better.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“There's no such thing as hideously ordinary. If something is hideous, it's automatically extraordinary. In a hideous way.”
― Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams

“Endings are what gives stories meaning.

I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea