Franki

“She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there—you can’t see or smell or hear, touch, or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels: Five Weetzie Bat Books – The Complete NPR Best-Ever Teen Series of Love and Magical Realism in LA

“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“Seniors get to do all the jolly things," Owen complained as they walked to archery practice that first day.

Neal glared at the chubby second-year with all the royal disdain of a vexed lion. He was limping from a staff blow to the knee. "You are a bloody minded-savage," he informed Owen sternly. "I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.”
― Tamora Pierce, Page

“Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life