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“I had to go outside and listen to the dry wind in the reeds, just to be sure that I hadn't gone deaf.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“I'm 25" admitted the ghost. "But I feel much older"
"How old do you feel?"
"Ancient, sometimes. Like, 30”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“You will never have this. This is only for other people. Better people than you.”
― Sukh Ojla, Sunny

“No-one thinks they will live to see the end of the world. But someone has to, so why shouldn't it have been us?”
― Jamie Mollart, Kings of a Dead World

“I gasp but no one hears me”
― Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

“My parents loved us, but I wasn't always sure they liked us”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“This is a rabbit hole. Do you want to know the secret to surviving once you've gone down the rabbit hole?"
Zachary nods and Mirabel leans forward. Her eyes are ringed with gold.
"Be a rabbit," she whispers.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“You are at liberty to follow your heart. But that is not always the best option.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“You'll be like me, a pitiful little knot in the floorboard that no one even knows exists. Kit brushed his hand against the grainy wood. I see you, he thought. I know you exist”
― David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

“I’ve brought you some things from home,’ I said, gesturing at the bag on the floor. ‘Some clothes and books – things like that.’
‘Books – great! That’ll make things easier. You know I can’t read worth a damn right now!’
‘There’s also some music. Schubert’s fifth, Mendelssohn’s third, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, Mahler’s fourth—’
‘I would have preferred his sixth.’
‘You’re not well enough for his sixth'.”
― Gavin Extence

“It was as if when he left he'd taken some of the screws that held her together and now all she could do was walk around all wonky and falling apart”
― Virginia Macgregor, What Milo Saw

“It scored a direct hit on my eardrum and rattled around in side my head”
― Craig A. Hart, Becoming Moon

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“The parliament of owls told their decision to the stars and the stars agreed. The moon did not, but on this night she was dark and could not offer her opinion”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“It was so hard for Ocean to stomach that the world was filled with such awful people. I tried to tell him that the bigots and the racists had always been there, and he said he’d honestly never seen them like this, that he never thought they could be like this, and I said yes, I know. I said that’s how privilege works.”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

“Montgomery is almost more than I can understand because it's so much more than it ever occurred to me to want.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“...We have a saying in Farsi. It translates 'your place was empty.' We say it when we miss somebody."
I sniffed.
"Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“I don't know who I am right now. But I know who I'm not. And I like that.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“He would like to turn back time all the way to the beginning of... well, that is the problem. Where to begin?”
― Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

“this killer was just herself turned inside out. Her fatal inversion.”
― Marie Tierney, Deadly Animals

“She wasn't yellow. She was golden.”
― Hanako Footman, Mongrel

“My stomach seemed to be laying somewhere on the ground”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

“A blade of grass is not dull until you see a flower”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I tried not to lose myself in the busy pattern of red, orange and brown chrysanthemums woven into the carpet”
― Iqbal Hussain, Northern Boy

“What did I do? I'm a slave, Norman. I inhaled when I should have exhaled. What did I do?”
― Percival Everett, James

“I am my own worst enemy but I am also my own best friend”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“You look about as dynamic as an abandoned fridge”
― Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex