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“You can decide you were wrong about something, and it doesn’t mean you were stupid. You just know more now. If I still thought the same as I did in seventh grade, I’d be worried.”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“I am here to live out loud.”
― Emila Zola

“I should have known, before I even knew your name, that you were going to be important.”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Just because it’s not about you or me doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant.”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Aren't most wonderful things a little bit strange?”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“It’s as though every time there’s a moment like that, where I think I’m better, there has to be something sad to balance it out.”
― Harriet Reuter Hapgood

“The only thing more dangerous than someone who doesn’t care about the rules is someone who does—and wants to break them anyway.”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“When I look at him I feel dismayed as I always do at how normal he looks, because surely there should be something--pointed ears or a pair of horns--to warn people of his evilness.”
― B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

“This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything—a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness—only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I’m continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“Just because I was interested in a man’s job didn’t mean I had to give up being girly. Who defined those roles anyhow?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“I run. I always fucking run. Well, I’m not running anymore. I want stability. I want love.”
― Sophie Kinsella, My Not So Perfect Life

“Right now I feel guilty to be alive. Why? Because I’m wasting it. I’ve been given this life and all I do is mope it away.
What’s worse is, I am totally aware of how ridiculous I am. It would be a lot easier if I believed I was the center of the universe, because then I wouldn’t know any better not to make a big deal out of everything. I know how small my problems are, yet that doesn’t stop me from obsessing about them.
I have to stop doing this.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“What you want and what the world needs are not always in accord, Kaz. Praying and wishing are not the same thing.”
But they’re equally useless. Kaz bit back the reply.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“But at the same time, my resolve is hardening like lacquer. I’m taking time out, but I’m not giving up. I mean, I’m only in my twenties; am I going to let one setback crush my ambition? No.”
― Sophie Kinsella, My Not So Perfect Life

“I don’t believe in symbolic gods. I believe that the real god exists all around us. In the flow of the river, in the rustle of the trees, in the whisper of the winds. He speaks to us all the time. All we need to do is listen.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“But the teacher had been right about one thing: violence breeds.
Someone pulls a trigger, sets off a bomb, drives a bus full of tourists off a bridge, and what's left in the wake isn't just she'll casings, wreckage, bodies. There's something else. Something bad. An aftermath. A recoil. A reaction to all that anger and pain and death.”
― Victoria schwab, This Savage Song

“And she’d fallen in love.
It couldn’t be that fast. It couldn’t be that simple. It couldn’t be.
But it was. She didn’t have to have felt it all before to know what tripped and stumbled inside her.
She breathed in, breathed out, took a good glug of wine.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“You don’t need your eyes to love, right? You just feel it inside you. That’s how it is in heaven. It’s just love, and no one forgets who they love.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“If you decide to leave—when you decide to leave—don’t do it without saying good-bye.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“He began to feel like a ghost in his own life, existing in a forced blind spot of the world.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”
― Neal Shusterman

“I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Jack, sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone. You understand?”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Do it for me, Alix. I need to know you’ll be happy if I’m going to have any chance of getting through this. Promise me. Please.”
“I promise you this. I’ll love you until the day I die even if I have to live without you. And if it’s fifty years from now, you come home, Nick Anderson. Do you hear me?
I’ll be waiting on you.”
― Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree

“It’s not how long you live that matters. It’s what you live for.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy

“All I want to do is kiss you until I fall asleep. I want to slide in between your sheets, and find out what goes on inside your head, and underneath your clothes. I want to make a fool of myself over you.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“This is going to sound trite, I suppose, but you never know when it’s going to be the last time. That you hug someone. That you kiss. That you say goodbye.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give