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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“Her light shines through the tunnel to my heart, clenching every pulsing beat with radiance and luminosity.”
― Renee Ericson, After Tuesday

“He wants me, all of me—my baggage, my body, my heart, my soul—and I want everything that he is.
So, that’s what we give to each other.”
― Renee Ericson, After Tuesday

“Damn, Ruby,” Lexi adds, “I didn’t know you were so skillful with giant balls.”
― Renee Ericson, After Tuesday

“This girl needs a vacation, so I’m taking one right now. I’m packing my bags and leaving on a motherf’ing Jäger plane.”
― Renee Ericson, After Tuesday

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“There’s a saying that timing is everything, but my life’s clock must be broken.”
― Renee Ericson, Forgotten Yesterday

“He truly was mine and I willingly, in every way, belonged to him.”
― Renee Ericson, Forgotten Yesterday

“I saw the soul of the man who knew my everything, as much as I knew his.”
― Renee Ericson, Forgotten Yesterday

“Further in, looming somewhere underneath his outward expression, lies a hint of regret and sorrow.
I can see it.
I can feel it.
We’re both so lost—looking to be found.”
― Renee Ericson, Forgotten Yesterday

“Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”
― Virgil, Eclogues

“I’ve been strong and responsible for too many people for too long. This girl needs a vacation, so I’m taking one right now. I’m packing my bags and leaving on a motherf’ing Jäger plane.”
― Renee Ericson, After Tuesday

“I quietly walk to my room, and keeping the door open, I pick up my cello settling it between my knees. The tips of my left hand press down on the fingerboard, while my right hand saws the bow across the strings. The notes hit the air and I shut my eyes, urging them to find their target. I want them to surround my mom and her dad, but I also want the notes to glue them together, reattach their bond. I know it can happen, and so when my calluses become useless, I keep playing. When my arm protests with fatigue, I keep playing. I keep playing because I believe.”
― Cassie Shine , Harp's Voice

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

“Puck Connolly,” says the old man. “Don’t be looking at him like that.” Such a statement is too tantalizing to ignore. “Who is he?” “Lord, that’s Sean Kendrick,”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“No shit,” my mom says. “Seriously?” “Seriously,” I say, and let her no shit pass without comment, even though she knows it’s an expression I do not like. It makes me think of constipation, which makes me think about grunting, my least favorite noise, after squawking and chewing.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“David Drucker has a theory about my metaphorical radio waves.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“So you’re saying that on Friday night I have an equal chance of getting vomited on as I do of getting kissed?” “Welcome to high school,”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“Team David, I think. I’m totally on Team David.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“Annie: I wonder if when he talks dirty, he gets all science-y. Oooh, your matter makes my particles throb.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“The thing is, sometimes people grow from breaking.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“But if I’m being honest … it’s because he said please.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“He wore a forest green T-shirt and straight-legged black jeans that fit snugly, but not enough to advertise his eggplant emoji.”
― Alyssa Cole, A Princess in Theory

“She wondered if this was some new species of fuckboy, an evolved version that was more effective at luring women into its trap before showing its true nature. If that was the case, it was working.”
― Alyssa Cole, A Princess in Theory

“And you make me feel like I’m already something.”
― Alyssa Cole, A Princess in Theory

“We all push sometimes, just to make sure someone is on the other side, pushing back.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, More Than We Can Tell