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“If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Do you want to die like this?" Mother had asked, that night and every night since then.

Lynn's answer never changed. "No."

And Mother's response, their evening prayer. "Then you will have to kill.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it.”
― Bennett Madison, September Girls

“You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Friendship is untenable for people in our position.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“As long as I live and breathe, I will be with you.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“You can live forever for me.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am.”
― Sean Williams, Twinmaker

“If I were a man
I might not wear the cloak
of anonymity.”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

“I cannot be assured of
exactly what I created
be it madness and monster
or beauty and light.”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

“I see my future
now not as something
intangible like a dream,
but like a boat
meeting land
after time spent at sea,
a destination I will reach.”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

“We built a world of words
and yet none satisfy now.”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

“Your-no-our free will gives us choices and because we're not perfect, it's not always clear which choice is the right one...So yes, we can be wrong. Yes the world's a messy place. But a world in which we always knew what was right and had no choice but to do it, that would be a world of puppets.”
― Emil Ostrovski, The Paradox of Vertical Flight

“Insanity is a disease, and it is highly contagious.”
― Emil Ostrovski, The Paradox of Vertical Flight

“...true friendship, the kind the whims of life cannot break, cannot stop or limit, true friendship of this sort, you will probably find only once, and then only if you’re lucky.”
― Emil Ostrovski, The Paradox of Vertical Flight

“I love you, but sometimes I feel like slapping you.”
― Emil Ostrovski, The Paradox of Vertical Flight

“But—but in falling, we fly, don’t we? We fly vertically. That’s the paradox of vertical flight. Falling is the only way we can fly.”
― Emil Ostrovski, The Paradox of Vertical Flight

“I’d like to be your friend—but only if you promise not to ever, ever count on me.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

“There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

“If she lets us down, if she’s weird sometimes—just ignore it, and love her. Just love her.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

“He kisses like a poet. Like he's writing poems on my lips.”
― Veronica Rossi, Brooke

“Just know that there's bad men in the world, and dying fast by your mother is a better way than theirs.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Type of men who gather up seven of themselves to attack two women in the middle of the night generally won't go back for dead friends.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.”
― Ned Vizzini, The Other Normals

“Life is a fragile thing. Apparently the whole world is fragile too.”
― Elizabeth Norris, Unraveling

“We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.”
― Veronica Rossi, Into the Still Blue

“But in the hours that were really minutes, he didn't beg me not to leave. He didn't say he hadn't meant it. When I stood, his gaze just followed me up. Then I was a shattered blown-glass blue rose, and every step away from him made my shards clatter and chime.”
― Jodi Meadows, Asunder