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“Whiteness, alone, is mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, senseless, implacable. Or so our writers seem to say.”
― Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

“Nowadays, we don’t have to be scared here. I hold his hand whenever I want.”
― Alice Oseman, Nick and Charlie

“On the drive back, Charlie falls asleep in my car. I turn the radio on and thank the universe that my life is like this.”
― Alice Oseman, Nick and Charlie

“Silently, Rowan grasped her own hand and eased on the emerald ring. “To whatever end,” he whispered. Silver lined her eyes. “To whatever end.” A reminder—and a vow, more sacred than the wedding oaths they’d sworn on that ship.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“If you can’t accept things you don’t understand, then you’ll spend your life questioning everything. Then you’ll have to live out your life in your own head.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“She wanted to kiss him. No: she wanted to bite him, hard enough to draw blood.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“They read. They made soup. They made love.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“They’d been dangerous, he thought; they’d loved him so fiercely it had made them dangerous.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“Everyone scrounged for an identity defined by objects.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“Why would she want the person who had carelessly humiliated her to hold her? That made no fucking sense. She wanted things to be the same—to love someone like that again, with a kind of endless trust.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“Good people who are kind are not common.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“I cannot seem to contort myself back into the shape of a dutiful child. I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I’d always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing. But I was wrong. Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn’t the absence of everything you lost—it was the culmination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“So—what—you believe in love but just not for you? You believe in romance and grand romantic gestures and happily ever afters but you think there is something so fundamentally wrong with you that you don’t deserve it?”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“began to realize that love wasn’t dead, but it wasn’t forever, either. It was something in between, a moment in time where two people existed at the exact same moment in the exact same place in the universe.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“Let’s start with a love story. Or maybe it’s another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. It’s important that we learn the lessons our mother didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“The only people to whom a lifestyle comes naturally are the very rich or the exceptionally famous. Everyone else is just trying to hardscrabble an existence about which they don’t feel an unendurable level of shame.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“My relationship with Emma might be my greatest accomplishment—it’s certainly my greatest wound.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“To know a story is to stroke the silken surfaces of loss, to feel the weight of beauty in his hands. To know a story is to carry it always, etched in his bones, even if dormant for decades. Tell us, they insist.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“To tell a story, he realises, is to plant a seed and let it grow.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Within every misfortune there is a blessing, and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune. And so it goes, until the end of time.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“She was frightened, but she was also determined. These two feelings always go hand in hand.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Finally, the older monk said, “Brother, I set that woman down on the other side of the river. Why are you still carrying her?” ’ Meilin takes her arm from Renshu’s shoulder and turns to face him. ‘Renshu, let’s not carry anything that we’ve already left behind.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“I’m glad we have a lifetime ahead of us so I can learn.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“She’s always told Renshu that regret is too heavy to carry. And yet, it’s impossible to have complete conviction that you’ve made all the right decisions. No one is that lucky or that naive. Maybe, Meilin thinks, it’s that you have to carry your regrets until you’ve made peace with them. Only then can you lay them down.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“We can forgive without understanding. Sometimes we must. Maybe that’s what forgiveness is – accepting someone’s actions, even if there are no good explanations.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“You claim the gods should love and care for humans. I disagree. I don’t think love can be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, remember?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“It’s a damned good thing that you love me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame