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“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“You think this is a big deal because, no offense, you've had a lot of people in your life who claimed to care about you but didn't act like it. That's not me. I can cook, and right now, you can't. So I'm doing it for you because that's how people should behave; they should fill in each other's gaps. Don't think about it too hard.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“You don't need anyone's permission to be you, Yads.”
― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys

“Dear Thisbe,
I wish there weren’t a wall.
Love, Pyramus”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Perks of refusing to play by the rules: you don’t have to choose between the boy who’d torture a man to death with you and the boy who welcomes you back with pastries.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“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

“Maybe she could quit her big job of being responsible for everyone else's feelings...She imagines it—letting go. Handing the heavy stuff back to the people it belongs to.”
― Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“The phrase 'see attached bibliography' is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“History, huh?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I’m just… so sorry I ran away! I was just freaking out like honestly I am having a proper full-on gay crisis!”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Two

“You're my polar star. I'll go wherever you guide me.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“I will not die today.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“He will not kill me. He does not get to make me a statistic.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“You're not going to wither up and die from this, Addy," Ashton lectures me as she shoves me toward the shower. "He doesn't get to erase you from the world.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“A human heart is the size of two hands clasped together. Imagine your own hands joined, or your hand in someone else’s, because that is what hands are for, and what hearts are for: holding each other. This can be very, very hard to remember when hearts have been so broken.”
― Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

“But I have no faith in love. Love cannot save me.

I choose vengeance.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“There will be no redemption. It is not me who is wrong. It's everyone else.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“I like Charlie Spring! In a romantic way not just a friend way!”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Two

“When she was sick and tired of being sick and tired, she clung to moments like this : The first shower after a flare-up.

Bliss should be held on to with both hands.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Anxiety is like being in freeway traffic all the time. There's the constant sense of dodging and darting, seeking your chance to cut in, the irritation of others pulling ahead of you. You hit the accelerator, you slam the brakes. You scout and scan for danger.”
― Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

“Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Beauty can only fight the truth for so long...”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I stand and hold out my hand. She gives me a skeptical look, but takes it and lets me pull her to her feet. I put my other hand in the air. 'Bronwyn Rojas, I solemnly swear not to murder you today or at any point in the future. Deal?'
'You're ridiculous,' she mutters, going even redder.
'It concerns me you're avoiding a promise not to murder me.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying