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“This Summer is breaking my heart into pieces, to reveal a new and better heart that only beats for her.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“In the pit of her stomach, she knew that if Hiraya was left here alone, she'd stay here with her.”
― Daphne Fama, House of Monstrous Women

“What I felt for Agnes was right and true, yes, but it was not selfless. Perhaps love never is.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

“but the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I thought,” Phosyne says, slowly, “that you might not mind my death.” Voyne scowls. “You are mine to care for,” she says, too quickly.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“Death does not come all at once; it leaves many of us in the sunlight behind, to grapple with a loss that comes seemingly out of order. Our own rhythms distract us from the procession.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“. Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Good-bye, Maysilee Donner, who I loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. Not as a sweetheart or even a friend. A sister, I’d said. But what is that exactly? I think about our journey — everything from sniping with her in those early days after the reaping to battling those pink birds. I guess that’s my answer. A sister is someone you fight with and fight for. Tooth and nail.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“I hurt you," Baker cries. "I hurt the one person I love more than anything else in the world." The swelling in Hannah's throat threatens to explode. Her sinuses prickle; her body rushes with uncontrollable feeling. "I hurt you, Han. I hurt you," Baker says, her body convulsing. The sobs burst out of Hannah's throat. "Yeah," she cries, choking on the word, hating that she needs to release it. "Yeah, you did. You hurt me. You really hurt me." Baker's face contorts with anguish. Her chin trembles; her mouth gaps around shuddering breaths. Her eyes bleed with agony. "I'm so-" she heaves. "I'm so-" "But Baker," Hannah says, touching a hand to her tears, "you also saved me." Baker's face screws up again. She heaves with more sobs, placing a hand over her ribs. "You saved me, too," she cries.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

“Do you love me?
You know I do.
How much?
Miles and miles.”
― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

“We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles