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“People aren’t so bad, really,” she said. “It’s what the world does to them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“I know I promised to give you flowers, I just didn't think it would be by your grave.”
― Celia Östergaard, The Romanov Diary

“It’s Annie and me they’re all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; it’s Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

“See, the thing about the falling in love montage," she said, her voice hoarse, "is that when it's over, the characters have fallen in love.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Let them start their dreadful wars, let destruction rain down, and let plague sweep through, but I will still be here, doing my work, holding humankind together with love like this.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“My heart’s beating.
My chest’s heaving.
I’m not breathing.
And you’re gone.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Who's the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who's horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“There is an artist my mother loved, Juan Gabriel, who was once asked in an interview if he was gay. His reply: What's understood need not be said. I remember how Mami's eyes fluttered to me like a bee on a flower acknowledging the pollen is sweet.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Thirteen broken bones and a punctured lung. You must have been put on this earth for a reason, little girl, to have survived.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“there we were sitting moodily on a cold bench saying “I’m sorry” to each other for things we couldn’t help.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

“Maybe then they’d leave me the fuck alone in the corner with my turkey and my mashed potatoes and my phone.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“I want to tell her some days I wake up to find dents on the inside of my palms from where I've fisted my hands while sleeping, my nails bitting into the skin & leaving angry marks.
On the days I wake up with smooth palms I'm angry at myself. There should be too breaks from this grief. Not even in sleep.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“If I say those words,
if I snap apart the air with them,

whatever is binding me together
will split too.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible. We walk around happily with these invisible veils hanging down over our faces. The world is kind of blurry, and we like it that way. But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there's a wind blowing it from our faces. And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love. But mostly we are happy not to. Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The first casualty of war is the truth.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It's crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

“Sometimes the only thing to say about a period of time is that it’s passing and that you’re surviving it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It's raining, Annie.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

“Be right back,' I say, and run to the bathroom to curl up on the floor. Just for like five minutes.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“How can you lose an entire person, only to gain a part of them back in someone entirely new?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I know what ugly looks like
when it departs from your mouth fully formed.

How the words can push space between two people;
how it's close to impossible to collapse that space.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“The body is a funny piece of meat. How it inflates and deflates in order to keep you alive. But how simple words can fill you up or pierce the air out of you.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land