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“What is it that you want? In life.” Only a very brief pause, and then he muttered, “Mostly, I just want everyone to leave me alone.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“Already you are walking in the heat to get somewhere, but where can you go? There is nowhere but here. This street or that street, it is all the same. One day you will know this, and you will sit down and wait.”
― Deborah Ellis, Mud City

“I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“When Kathryn first came to Montreal she thought 'salut' was what people said hello with, but now she knows they use it just as often to say goodbye. "Salut".”
― Elisabeth Harvor, If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“I need it to be a love story. I need it to be that.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“When you were a little girl, something made you open your eyes too wide. You tried to see everything and you ended up not seeing very much.”
― Elisabeth Harvor, If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever

“Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“-and I got my period. I get to bleed for a week without the sweet release of death.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“It felt good to have the ability to disregard the opinion of a man.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember myself at fifteen, I’ll think of this.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“A fickle heart is the only constant in this world”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that mom and dad can't. Or won't.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“I knew you talked to books. I didn't realize they listened.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“You unmanageable, contrary creature. You have made me believe in something at last. It feels as wretched as I imagined.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Perhaps I haven't seen what you can do," she said. "But I've seen what you choose to do." She looked up. "Isn't that more important?”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“Un hombre que puede mantener viva una planta tiene la paciencia de aguantar tus mierdas. It means ‘A man who can keep a plant alive has the patience to put up with your shit.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“Yeah,” I said. Sometimes I was full of halfhearted yeahs.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“Because nobody will deny you anything the moment you stop denying yourself. Who could possibly have sovereignty greater than yours?” she asked, insistent. “Who on earth could have the right to refuse you, if you do not permit it? If this isn’t the way, Sasha, then find another one.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“I’m keeping you from death, not letting you live. There’s a difference.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“To this day, cranes carry the strands of our fate. They say that each time two people’s paths cross, so do their strands. When they become important to one another or make a promise to one another, a knot is tied, connecting them.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Only rocks considered sitting still a virtue. Demons take me before I called it one of mine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes