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  • #1
    Melina Marchetta
    “It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.”
    Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

  • #2
    Melina Marchetta
    “He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned in to mine. Get that through your thick skull. Would I like it any other way? Hell, yes, but I don't think that will be happening in my lifetime.”
    Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

  • #3
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #4
    Jandy Nelson
    “Oh, God,’ he whispers, reaching his hand behind my neck and bringing my lips to his. ‘Let’s let the whole fucking world explode this time.’
    And we do.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #5
    Jandy Nelson
    “I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #6
    Jandy Nelson
    “He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps up, finds my wrists, and pins them over my head. "Yeah, right. Totally joking, I want to do everything with you, whenever you're ready, I'm the one, promise?" He's above me, batting and grinning like a total hooplehead.
    "I promise," I say.
    "Good. Glad that's decided." He raises an eyebrow. "I'm going to deflower you, John Lennon.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #7
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #8
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #9
    Katie Cotugno
    “The hideous thing is this: I want to forgive him. Even after everything, I do. A baby before my 17th birthday and a future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but somehow forgot.”
    Katie Cotugno, How to Love

  • #10
    “Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?"
    "Yes."
    "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?"
    "No," Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south."
    "Gracious," Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.”
    Kristin Cashore, Fire

  • #11
    Morgan Matson
    “Roger: "God, I've been wanting to do that for a long time."

    Amy: "Really"

    Roger: "Oh yes. Since Kansas. At least.
    Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

  • #12
    Tammara Webber
    “Love is not the absence of logic
    but logic examined and recalculated
    heated and curved to fit
    inside the contours of the heart”
    Tammara Webber, Easy

  • #13
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Blue,” he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey.

    She said, “I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

  • #14
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Having kids sent a tornado through your marriage, then made you happy for the devastation. Even if you could rebuild everything just the way it was before, you’d never want to.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Landline

  • #15
    Rainbow Rowell
    How could she ever doubt that he loved her? When loving her was what he did better than all the things he did beautifully?
    Rainbow Rowell, Landline

  • #16
    Gayle Forman
    “You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup.”
    Gayle Forman, Just One Night

  • #17
    Lauren Oliver
    “She felt as though, just for a second, she had understood something vastly important, had had a glimpse of it: love, pure and simple and undemanding.”
    Lauren Oliver, Panic
    tags: love

  • #18
    Lauren Oliver
    “It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. The promise was always in the possibility.”
    Lauren Oliver, Panic

  • #19
    Heather Demetrios
    “I don’t really know what it means to move on, but lately, with Sky, I’m starting to feel like I want to because when I look at her, I don’t see you or the war or any of the shit in my head. I just see her, and it’s like suddenly I can breathe again after holding my breath for so long.”
    Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

  • #20
    Erin Morgenstern
    “I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #21
    Emily Henry
    “Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give.”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World
    tags: love

  • #22
    Emily Henry
    “It wouldn't matter," he says. "If we were in the same world, the one where Kincaid was in love with you, I'd still be here. If you wanted me, I'd be here."

    "Why?" I ask.

    He hides a grin and runs his thumb over my lips. "I'm not sure the world and me are as complicated as you think, Natalie. I didn't mean to choose you or anything. I just know if I only get to build one porch in my life, I'd like it to be yours, and if there's one person I never have to hurt or disappoint, I'd want that to be you too.”
    Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World
    tags: beau

  • #23
    Marie Rutkoski
    “Will you come with me?"
    "Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.”
    Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

  • #24
    Sally  Thorne
    “I hope it's not too forward of me to say, but your eyes are incredible, Lucy. I die when you blink.”
    Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

  • #25
    William Goldman
    “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #26
    William Goldman
    “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride



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