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“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.

I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
― Hilary Duff

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I’ll check on you when I get home. I love you, baby. (Kiefer)
I love you too, Daddy. (Kiara)
What the hell was that action? (Syn)
I think it’s something called ‘paternal concern.’ (Nykyrian)
What…? You sure? I thought that crap was a myth. (Syn)
No, really. I watched it once in a documentary. It was fascinating. Believe it or not, there are people out there who actually have feelings for their progeny. (Nykyrian)
Get the fuck out. No way. You’re screwing with my head again, aren’t you? (Syn)
No, I swear. You just saw it with your own eyes. I did not make that shit up. (Nykyrian)
Yeah but it’s really messing with my concept of the natural order of the universe. Paternal love? What’s next? Limb regrowth? Genetic splicing reversals? (Syn)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“I’ve spent my entire life listening to people tell me why I can’t be loved and how I’m nothing but a worthless piece of shit. I always told myself that I didn’t care, that I didn’t need anyone else. It was a lie, you know. I do care and I want Kiara. If it costs me my life to be with her, it doesn’t matter. I’ve already lived past my prime, anyway. I get up every morning with more pain in my joints than the day before. If I have to die, I’d rather die knowing someone cared about me, just once. Is that really too much to ask? (Nykyrian)
For us? Yes. It is. We are the gutter and the gutter is all we’ll ever be. Don’t reach out for the stars. They’ll burn you until there’s nothing left. (Syn)
Then let me burn. (Nykyrian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara)
I tried that once. (Nykyrian)
And? (Kiara)
Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“In your palms, I’ve placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I’m not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you’d destroy. (Nykyrian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“Just out of curiosity, how many weapons are in that thing? (Kiara)
Enough to make me happy. (Nykyrian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara)
No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“Thank you. (Nykyrian)
For what? (Kiara)
For giving me a life worth living. I know I’m not worth it, and that I don’t deserve it, but I swear to the gods I finally believe in that I will spend every moment I have left making you happy and trying to be worthy of you. (Nykyrian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

“Sometimes you have to put your foot down… And sometimes you have to put it up their ass."

-Hauk”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

“Family isn't about the blood you share. It's about the people willing to bleed for you." ---Maris - Born of Fury”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

“If you worry about every 'what if' that might befall you, your fears will paralyze you.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

“The bitterest truth was always better than the sweetest lie.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

“Listen with your eyes.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

“Just remember, family isn't perfect. It's just perfectly ours.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

“Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living.”
― Tara Hudson, Hereafter

“My sense of direction would be the death of me. Metaphorically, at least.”
― Tara Hudson, Hereafter

“Hours can pass like years when you wait impatiently for something, especially something you crave and dread at the same time.”
― Tara Hudson, Hereafter

“Anyway, it doesn’t matter where we go, because I just want to be whenever you are.”
― Tara Hudson, Hereafter

“I like you, Dawn. I've seen a lot of humans, from far away and up close. I've never met one like you. I think you're the closest thing to a sunrise I'll ever see.”
― J.A. London, Darkness Before Dawn

“In four hundred years, I’ve never dreamed. Vampires don’t. But after I saved you on the trol ey that night, you invaded my sleep. In my dreams, we’re the same. We can touch, kiss, love. And every dream ends with us … being together forever.”
― J.A. London, Darkness Before Dawn