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“there were things I knew for sure: That I had been loved, once, and had loved back. That a person could find hope in the way a weed grew. That the sum of a man’s life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of waxy blooms. So what did they need poison for? Couldn't they just be bitter? They weren't like rattlesnakes, they didn't even eat what they killed. The way she boiled it down, distilled it, like her hatred. Maybe it was a poison in the soil, something about L.A., the hatred, the callousness, something we didn't want to think about, that the plant concentrated in its tissues. Maybe it wasn't a source of poison, but just another victim.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“Maybe the things we think we have to believe are the things that end up killing us in the end, when we figure out we were wrong, about everything.”
― Kate Ellison, The Butterfly Clues

“We are born alone, and all die alone, too. I read that somewhere, in some book. After Oren died I used to lie awake and think about that: think about the universe sucking up hope for us, soul by soul, until we're so dry we all starve, all at once, and the sky takes our bones and crushes them into mulch and starts over again. So goes the cycle. So go the millions and billions of things we can't ever begin to control.”
― Kate Ellison, The Butterfly Clues

“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Willie appeared completely calm about the news of Mother. She always said she could make tea in a tornado.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“I studied a crescent moon hung crooked in a plum purple sky and thought about what it would be like to truly be seen.”
― Laura Whitcomb, A Certain Slant of Light

“I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.”
― Laura Whitcomb, A Certain Slant of Light

“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“It isn’t fair to be the kind of creature who is able to love but unable to stay.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“I don't know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“It’s impossible to control someone else’s capacity for forgiveness.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations