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“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
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with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
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― Richard Siken, Crush

“She looks up at the mountain and wonders which god answered her prayers, wonders if she prayed them.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife

“He’s a book full of footnotes brought to life. He’s a jacket made of elbow patches.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“The world isn't large enough for heroes and monsters at once. There's too much danger of confusion between the two categories.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife

“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Oh, please don't go — I'll eat you up — I love you so!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“Take anything you want and know you deserve to have it.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“On the map of you, my fingers could always find the green hills, Wales. Cool waters and a shore of white chalk. The ancient part of you carved out of stone in a prayerful circle, sacrosanct. Your spine's a ridge I'd die climbing.

If I could spread it out on my desk, I'd find the corner of your mouth where it pinches with my fingers, and I'd smooth it away and you'd be marked with the names of saints like all the old maps. I get the nomenclature now- saints' names belong to miracles”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I'm starting to think I'll never be a woman. Or worst of all, I've actually been one all along.”
― Florence Gonsalves, Dear Universe

“I'm just another another animal that has to survive somehow.”
― Florence Gonsalves, Dear Universe

“I never realized this particular quality about humans: how utterly tiny we are in the face of everything that happens to us.”
― Florence Gonsalves, Dear Universe

“She said that being a woman means everyone hates your body, and your body hates you.”
― Kristen O'Neal, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

“Sometimes you just look at a person in that moment and think yes, they're going to be important to me. They're going to change the shape my life takes. We're going to mean something to each other.
This is the feeling I get as I watch Brigid try to fold an entire meat-lover's pizza in half, give up, and stack four slices directly on top of one another to shove them into her mouth.”
― Kristen O'Neal, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

“Each of them, living, was intolerable to the other, and in fury, they fell to it.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Beowulf

“Eventually, ecstatic, she outlasted the night.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Beowulf

“Grendel hurt, and so he hunted.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Beowulf

“For a moment, he felt for his old foes, fen-bound, embarking alone.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley

“But we would not be human if we did not summon monsters into our midst ... .”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“Maybe a God that roots for love is the only God worth believing in.”
― Kevin Christopher Snipes, Milo and Marcos at the End of the World