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“She’s going to have to say this out loud, isn’t she? Bella Swan, eat your horny little Mormon heart out.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Kind of,” she says. And, “Pull my hair.” For a few ringing seconds, August imagines herself melting onto the floor of the train like the ghosts of a million spilled subway slushies and dropped ice cream cones. Completely under control.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Is this what it’s always like? To want someone and know they want you back? How in the world does anyone get anything done?”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“I mean, I can’t just jump into the twenty-first century without knowing how the wifey works—” “Wi-Fi.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“My mother says there are people you meet and get to know, and then there are people you meet and already know.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“He was so sweet, she was in danger of losing a tooth.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“minute to fill her lungs with fresh, frosty air, the kind that was just cold enough to seem wet even though it was dry.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Life hurts,” he said fiercely. “It’s unavoidable. But I know the difference between torture and growing pains.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“You’re exactly as brave as you need to be.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Ellen, I am confident that the next sentence I am about to write has never been written or spoken aloud before. When he was wiping that cow shit on me, it was quite possibly the most turned-on I have ever been.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Ryle is compassionate. He does things my father never would have done. He donates to charity,”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Until this moment, I’ve fought to remain strong. I’ve fought to not feel too sorry for myself when I’m around other people. But sitting here with my mother, I crave weakness. I just want to be able to give up for a little while.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Her skin is the bluish color of skim milk,”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it’s sated, it transmutes.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“One of the hobs who used to work here, Nell Uther, would find me and guide me back to my room, telling me that if I couldn’t sleep, then I ought to just close my eyes and lie still. That at least my body could rest, even if my mind wouldn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Sure, but there’s still so many downsides to falling in love. Reading, however,” I said, pointing toward my glorious bookshelf, “gives you all the fun without the pain. A great alternative.”
― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling

“You seek pain as if 
it’s going to save you. 
You dip into sadness 
as if it’s going to bring you joy.”
― Najwa Zebian, Sparks of Phoenix

“Fishies. Fishies. Putting on their feet. Marry a fish and life will be sweet. Fry her in a pan and pick out her bones. Fishy blood is cold ’top a throne.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Once you’re wed, if you want to take other lovers, she better be with you when you do it and she better be into it. If it’s not fun for everyone, it’s not happening.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I am used to the whipped-cream-topped drinks Vivi used to bring me, but there is something satisfyingly bracing about drinking coffee this way, hot and bitter.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I turn the water to nearly scalding hot. I love water so hot it almost burns. I love the smell of shampoo. My happiest place might just be under a showerhead. It is here in the steam, covered in suds, that I do not feel like Monique Grant, woman left behind. Or even Monique Grant, stalled writer. I am just Monique Grant, owner of luxury bath products.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m Evelyn.” She reaches out and takes my hand, shaking it. It strikes me as a unique form of power to say your own name when you know that everyone in the room, everyone in the world, already knows it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I once read that charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“That doesn’t make sense.” “I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I remember him saying, in the dark, cramped stockroom with my back against a wooden crate, “You have this power over me.” He’d convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It’s on the house,” he said, which I thought was the stupidest thing, because if there is anyone that should be getting free food, it isn’t rich people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Rex was the kind of guy who was so beautiful it was nearly boring.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Evelyn, you are not capable of giving it up. And you never will be. And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I… well, I didn’t do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo