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“She was the viper. She would be the nightmare everyone thought she was.”
― Swati Teerdhala

“I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you.
It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy.”
― Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”
― Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer, Between the Lines

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Everyone deserves a happy ending.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?"

"Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Love's a tidal wave," she says.
"Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask.
"No. Because it sucks you under and you drown."
"But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.”
― jodi picoult samantha van leer, Between the Lines

“What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“I don’t want to lose him either. My emotions are a muddled mess, somehow heightened by his kiss. When he pulls away, I’m lightheaded, the rug pulled out from under me. I’ve been falling for Sebastian for two years, and all this time I believed my feelings were unrequited. And now, when I may never see him again, I learn that they’re not. Fate is toying with me. “Wait for me,” he whispers. I won’t. I can’t. And I feel a stab of guilt at how good his words feel anyway. I can’t let my feelings for Sebastian blur my focus.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

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

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay