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“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they’re not. There’s no telling how long you will have them near.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“We find things, just as we lose things. If you’ve lost your honor, you’ll find it again.”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep

“You have to take the long view, Tom. It isn't only Traction Cities which poison the air and tear up the earth. All cities do that, static or mobile. It's human beings that are the problem. Everything that they do pollutes and destroys.”
― Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain

“Weren't we all, from girl to guard, from criminal to civilian? We wanted a glimpse at the monster inside. We thought we could catch a peek sometimes, a shiftiness in the eyes maybe. A rumble.

Each of us had our own monster, distinct ous. We were all different, one girl to the next, like snowflakes.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“Sometimes you have to endure painful things to realize that you're a whole lot stronger than you think.”
― Jenn Bennett, Alex, Approximately

“You don't need wings to fly, she chirped.
What do you need, Daughter? I asked softly.
She looked up at me, her big, black eyes alight with knowledge, and she smiled.
Words.”
― Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword

“Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.”
― Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword

“The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“But I look back on the days when he was a newborn babe, when I had to hold him all night to keep him from crying, and I long for that time. There will never be a night like that again.”
― Amy Harmon, The First Girl Child

“If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken.”
― Alex North, The Whisper Man

“Be the bridge, be the light. When iron melts, when flowers spring from fields of blood—let the land be witness, and return home.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“His silver-blue eyes met hers expectantly and then he grinned like the devil he was. He’d known this moment was coming. “Hello, wife.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“Here's the thing about miracles—medicine—whatever you want to call it. You can't force it on anyone or do the work for them. All you can do is make your own miracles and let people live out their lives however they plan to.”
― Maria DeBlassie, Weep, Woman, Weep

“She was the Weeping Woman, sure. But I was the woman who made rainwater out of tears. I would use them to water my crops through this drought. When people bought my fat turnips and sharp radishes and long, thick carrots, they would taste of freshly turned futures, hope, the bittersweet taste of things past, and the salty tang of possibility. This I would do to remind others that we are the seeds we plant, not the histories forced upon us. This I would do to wash away the sorrow from my soul.”
― Maria DeBlassie, Weep, Woman, Weep

“He could stop you before you even tried to escape. Before the idea even occurred to you. Before this moment.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Why do you pretend what we do is nothing?” she asked. “Every day, all the chaos and messiness of life happens and every day we clean it all up. Without us, they would just wallow in filth and disorder and nothing of any consequence would ever get done. Who taught you to sneer at that? I’ll tell you who. Someone who took their mother for granted.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Think of us what you will," she thought, "we made mistakes, and probably scarred our children for life, and we froze sandwiches, and forgot car pool, and got divorced. But when the time came, we went the distance.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“What had been destroyed made what remained that much more precious. That much more solid. That much more important.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires