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“New things are scary.” “They don’t have to be.” “How are they not?” “Because some of my favorite things I haven’t even done yet.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“She had never felt so unmotivated. Existing seemed like such an unfair demand.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn't stolen, she promised herself.

-Chapter 35”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing. I can't…” He sucked in a shaky breath. “I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me, Bree. Please teach me. Don't let me destroy this.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I lost my heart to you. And, Bree, in case you're wondering, I don't ever want it back.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I stand by my logic though. I think love is a concept, and each person has an individual word for what sums it up for them. My word for love is Bree.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I know I'm probably the last person you want to see right now, but I thought if I sat on your porch, you wouldn't be scared. You wouldn't be alone.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“How do you teach a man who has lost everything, not to fear it happening again?”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“He fixed her with his eyes as he laid himself bare. “I would have taken you right against that door. I’d have fused our bodies so irreparably that I wouldn’t know where I ended and you began. Drunk off your lips, I would have lost myself in you. I’m barely holding it together. Elara, one word from you, and I’ll unravel.”
― Imani Erriu, Heavenly Bodies

“You have your gods.” His eyes flicked to Elara. “I have mine.”
― Imani Erriu, Heavenly Bodies

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I watched my mom’s beloved romcoms practically every night, using her DVD collection I’d inherited when she died. I felt closer to my mother when I watched them; it felt like a tiny piece of her was there, watching beside me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“But if you were Matched,” I say softly, “what do you think she’d be like?” “You,” he says, almost before I’ve finished. “You.”
― allie condie

“How could he keep doing the things he did if he’d left half his heart behind? He’s a guy, Adela would say when I brought it up to her. But that didn’t matter to me. I thought controlling yourself would be easy if you had a reason to.”
― Ella Fields, Serenading Heartbreak

“I didn't find out who I wanted to be until I was almost 40. You have to try on a lot of shoes until you find some you like walking in. Never apologize for that.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Of course. There is nothing more dangerous than a woman who owns who she is and apologizes to no one.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

“Why is it whenever a man throws a tantrum a woman is blamed for his poor behavior?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

“If everyone could stifle their feelings towards undeserving people, the world would be too perfect. We are only human, but we are sometimes at our most beautiful when we feel things we shouldn't.”
― Bexchan

“Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue