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“There are much worse games to play.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here.
No stranger would let it be if we met up
At midnight in the hanging tree.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I’ll tell them how I survive it. I’ll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I’m afraid it could be taken away. That’s when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I’ve seen someone do. It’s like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.

But there are much worse games to play.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You were right, Sadie Wen. I am completely, helplessly obsessed with you.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You

“Fix this. It's what I've always done, or tried to do. Fix the gap in my family, the holes in my life, patch everything up, smooth everything over.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“I have all your emails memorized word for word,”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You

“Descartes was wrong, you know, when he said, 'To live well, you must live unseen.' To live well, you must learn to see yourself first. Do you understand what I'm saying?”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I didn’t know you had such a praise kink.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“You're still a kid, you know.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I, like most women my age, have learned to hate myself just enough to appease others.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“That’s the question I was going to ask tonight,” Bo interrupts. “Who in this world matters the most to you?” “You,” I answer simply, pleading with him to hear me. What I said and all that it means. “You,” he repeats. “It’s you for me too. With a very close second,” he says, his eyes on my belly.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb

“Ik hou van jou, Adam.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Yes, is the obvious answer. I do hate you. I hate everything about you. I hate you so much that whenever I’m around you, I can barely think straight. I can barely even breathe.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“If I'm not swimming as hard as I can, feet thrashing at the waves, I'm drowning.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“Is it really too much to ask? For people like me to want a bit of that light for ourselves?”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“God, I've missed him. I somehow still do, even though he's standing right in front of me.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“to live well, you must learn to see yourself first.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I want to say something sassy, but the only thing that comes to mind is how insulting it is that eyelashes like his were waster on Satan's errand boy.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“You fell in love with me?" I whisper, handing him a menu in a pathetic attempt to make it look like there's nothing to see here.

"I did," he says. "And I miss you, so much. I wanted to tell you how sorry I am."

"Here?" I ask.
"Here."
"While I'm working?"
"While you're working."
"Are you just going to repeat everything I say?"

He tries to wrestle his smile under control but I can see how much this exchange lights him up inside.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“I wanted to translate your frowns and find out what your problem with me was and then bend you over the back of my couch.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“Sometimes, the worst day of your life might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you—it all depends on the way you look at it.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“I want to say something sassy, but the only coherent thought that comes to mind is how insulting it is that eyelashes like his were wasted on Satan’s Errand Boy, so I just give a perfunctory nod and turn down the hall.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“I’m never going to let someone make me feel bad about it or about cheese curds.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“In order to show up for everyone else, I need to show up for myself first.”
― Lauren Asher, Final Offer

“So what? Growing up doesn’t mean giving up on all your dreams.” “I didn’t give up. I just realized I’d rather make someone else’s dreams come true a lot more than my own.”
― Lauren Asher, Final Offer

“Life is about perspective. Until you change yours, you’ll always be tied to this.”
― Lauren Asher, Final Offer

“He lets go of my wrist, dragging a hand through his hair instead. “Good god,” he says with a little laugh. Shakes his head. “For one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met, you can really be quite oblivious sometimes.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“The neglected ones, the unlucky ones, the ones who want more than they've been give. The ones who have to crawl and scrape and fight their way up from the very bottom, who have to game a system designed for them to lose. Always the first to be punished and blamed when things go wrong. Always the last to e seen, to be saved.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“And everything about this moment is so lovely and so fragile in its loveliness that I'm almost afraid to hold it.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“There’s no guarantee for any of us. We just have to do the best with the time we’ve got.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out on a Limb