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“In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”
― Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

“Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.”
― Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”
― Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

“It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

“Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they’re at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“That what you’ve always had doesn’t mean that’s what you’ll always get. That what you’ve always wanted isn’t what you’ll always want.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“You can do better than that." He loops his arms around my waist and pulls me to him.

"Where are your gloves?"

"Better than that too." He drops a kiss on my collarbone. "Good to see you, Cass. I dreamed about you, Cass...Feel free to improvise."

"Aren't you supposed to be wearing those work gloves? When you're working? Because otherwise your poor hands won't..."

Gah. I sound like Mom, or the school nurse.

I'm no good at this.

Luckily, Cass is good enough for both of us. "I missed you, Gwen. It's good to see you, Gwen. I dreamed about you, Gwen. Yeah, haven't gotten around to the gloves. More important things to focus on. Want me to tell you what they are?”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“Dressed-up Cass is like a creature from another planet. One I want to colonize.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“I strongly believe if God had intended man - or woman - to jog, he'd have scaled way back on breast size and sent some of that padding to the soles of our feet. Just sayin'.”
― Patty Blount, Some Boys

“Dude, the key to scoring with a chick like that is to show her what you can do for her— not to her.”
― Patty Blount, Some Boys

“Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.”
― David Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

“You know what guys do? They stand up for people. You know why? Two reasons. It's right. And it feels good. Even if the person doesn't know what you did. Maybe especially then.”
― David Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never accurately remember—not enough to empathize, anyway . . . maybe just enough for pity.”
― Una LaMarche, Like No Other

“I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read. Heaven.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Having a friend made everything else suck less.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory