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“Dotted throughout the room were daggers and clubs, sickles and shields. It was like Murders-R-Us had had a sale and Eleanor had bought one of everything.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“so . . . Summers were the worst. Or the best?” She honestly didn’t know. “Because I had two things: a library card and time.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“I’m tired of being the person everyone else expects to bend and bend, like a plant under the weight of nonstop hail, so they can go on being nasty and mean. Plants can’t bend like that for long without snapping, and neither can people.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“So you have a fish?” I asked. “Yeah. A betta fish.” “Oh. Does he have a name?” “He does. Swim Shady.” I barked out a laugh. “Is he the real Swim Shady or . . .” “All the other Swim Shadys are just imitating,”
― Abby Jimenez, The Fall Risk

“She thought about giving him a little more space but didn’t. Because when cuddling with a hot guy is a matter of life and death, you just go with it.”
― Ally Carter, The Blonde Identity

“Did you just break an assassin’s nose with a telephone?” Her eyes were wide. “I think so?” He absolutely beamed. “Good girl.”
― Ally Carter, The Blonde Identity

“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,”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“I am a homebody, through and through, and there’s nothing like being home.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“But memory and time aren’t friends. They reject each other, they hurry in opposite directions, pulling the binding taut between them, threatening to snap. They fight, and we inexplicably lose. Memory and time. Always losing one as you go on with the other.”
― Raven Kennedy, Gild

“Not gonna lie, I was kind of surprised to find out the books she curled up with every weekend had so much dick in them.”
― Lucy Score, Story of My Life

“Why not forgive? In a world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy,”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“He cages me, pins me, and stares down at me like he forgot where he is and I’m something to be consumed. Like I’m prey.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“You’re not asking too much,” he said. “You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I remember every one of them. Because I am the bait that lures them here.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Chickens didn’t pretend they loved you until you proposed in front of the whole damn town at the annual Christmas-tree lighting and then suddenly changed their mind.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“She wasn’t so much afraid of dying as she was of forgetting to live her life. Somewhere along the way, she’d forgotten to figure out who she was or what she wanted to be when she grew up.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“See, boys are allowed to be mad scientists. But when women do it? We’re simply labeled crazy. And even at eight years old, I knew there was a difference.”
― Karina Halle, Grave Matter

“Grief is funny like that. It lives alongside you, sometimes in silence, and then a random thought, or memory, or smell will punch through you like a fist, your bleeding heart in its grasp, and you have to relive it all over again.”
― Karina Halle, Grave Matter

“There’s actually a psychological rationale to explain our affinity for small things: dollhouses offer us a sense of control and imagination. They can provide a feeling of agency. Miniatures allow us to create the world as we’d like to see it.”
― Elise Hooper, The Library of Lost Dollhouses

“Libraries are viewed as such solemn places—but why? Reading is magic. Think of the imagination and sense of adventure that readers employ every time they crack open a book. There are few places filled with more magic than libraries, no doubt about it.”
― Elise Hooper, The Library of Lost Dollhouses

“Life doesn’t care what you want, other people don’t care what you want. All that matters is what you do.”
― Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

“This season means nothing without you. Nothing matters without you. Please come tonight. -Zee”
― Liz Tomforde, Mile High

“I’ll find you in another life,” he whispered. “No matter where the winds scatter us, I will search across continents and swim through oceans, and I will find you again.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Queen of Shadows and Ruin

“Darling,” he breathes into my ear, my skin instantly tingles from the sound of his voice after so many years. “You always were a hard one to fucking tame.”
― Evelyn Montgomery, Losing Neverland

“I hated humans. They were such a disappointment. And to think God switched dinosaurs for man. He must be raging.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“What took you so long?” Christian circles my wrist with his cold fingers. “I met Death.” I take my bottom lip in my teeth. “And?” Christian brushes a strand of hair back from my face, and looking deeply into my eyes, he whispers, “I told him to go fuck himself, because I’m not going anywhere without you.”
― Ariel N. Anderson, Under Your Scars