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“I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“No one is likable from the inside out.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I will always protect you" he told me, his jaw tight, his eyes shadowed. "You deserve to feel safe in your own home. And I'll help you with the foundation. I'll teach you what you need to know to take this life like you were born to it. But this...us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jamerson looks at you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“You don't have to kiss me. You don't even have to like me, Heiress, but please don't make me do this alone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“If there's one thing the Hawthorne family isn't, it's fine. They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here, and they'll be a twisted, broken mess once you're gone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Jameson Winchester Hawthorne is hungry. He's been looking for something. He's been looking for it since the day he was born.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Getting involved with Jameson would just be throwing gasoline on the fire." "And what a lovely fire it would be,”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Everything’s a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“We are two parts of a song. He is the music. I am the words.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“If the ending is this painful, I don’t know if this was worth it all.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“I missed you. I missed you infinity.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“Letting go isn’t about forgetting. It’s balancing moving forward with life, and looking back from time to time, remembering the people in it.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“The world keeps moving, no matter what happens to you.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“I want you to know … if I could do it all over again, I would. Every second of it.” If the ending is this painful, I don’t know if this was worth it all.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“You are my entire world, Julie. And one day, maybe I’ll only be a small piece of yours. I hope you keep that piece.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“Hey. Just to make sure I beat everyone to it, I wanted to write in this first. I hope that’s some more proof of how much I’m in love with you. I still can’t believe it. How did three years go by so fast? It feels like yesterday I was sitting on the bus behind you trying to build the courage to say something. It’s crazy to think there was a time before we knew each other. A time before “Sam and Julie.” Or “Julie and Sam”? I’ll let you decide that one. I know you can’t wait to leave this place, but I’m gonna miss it. I get it, though. Your ideas were always too big for a small town, and everyone here knows it. But I’m happy your path somehow made you stop in Ellensburg along the way. So you and I could meet each other. Maybe it was supposed to happen, you know? I feel like my life didn’t start until I met you, Julie. You’re the best thing to happen to this small town. To me. I realize it doesn’t matter where we’re going next, as long as we’re together. I’ll be honest. I used to be scared of leaving home. Now I can’t wait to move on and make new memories with you. Just don’t forget the ones we made here. Especially when you make it big. And whatever happens, promise you won’t forget me, okay? Anyway, I love you, Julie, and always will. Yours forever, Sam”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“There are so many moments I wish I could relive again. Especially the smaller ones. The quieter ones that we often don’t think about. Those are the moments I look back and miss the most.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“You want to feel something. Something meaningful, and intense. You want to feel that thing in your heart and stomach. You want to be moved. To care about something, or fall in love, you know? And you want it to feel real. And different. And exciting.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“When it came to Emmy, I was playing with fire, but I would happily walk into the flames for her. And I’d have a smile on my face the whole damn time.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“And Emmy wasn’t just pretty. She was extraordinary.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“I’d spent the past few years trying to be something, and there was something about Emmy that made me believe I could get there.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“Emmy was worth the wait. I’d been waiting thirty-two years for her without even knowing it, and she’d been right in front of me the whole time.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“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

“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy.
A rider without their dragon is dead.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I would rather lose this entire war than live without you, and if that means I have to prove myself over and over, then I'll do it. You gave me your heart, and I'm keeping it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing