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“Are you awake?”
“Have you been watching me sleep?”
“Yes, Bella. Are you awake?”
“No.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“IDEA .. if your bored and you miss me you should write some dirty fan fiction about us. you can read it to me later. great idea right?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“What do you see when you think of me,
A figure cloaked in mystery
With eyes downcast and hair covered,
An oppressed woman yet to be discovered?
Do you see backward nations and swirling sand,
Humpbacked camels and the domineering man?
Whirling veils and terrorists
Or maybe fanatic fundamentalists?
Do you see scorn and hatred locked
Within my eyes and soul,
Or perhaps a profound ignorance of all the world as a whole?
Yet . . .
You fail to see
The dignified persona
Of a woman wrapped in maturity.
The scarf on my head
Does not cover my brain.
I think, I speak, but still you refrain
From accepting my ideals, my type of dress,
You refuse to believe
That I am not oppressed.
So the question remains:
What do I see when I think of you?
I see another human being
Who doesn’t have a clue.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin , Ayesha at Last

“He is a person, complicated and confused. Just like you.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

“Sometimes there were no words, only sunshine on your heart. Alhamdulilah.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

“How did you change your life when you were trapped like this? Her history didn't define her. Her origins didn't define her. At least, they shouldn't. She could be more, if she had a chance.”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

“Everyone deserved to love and be loved back. Everyone.”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

“She was so beautiful she made his chest hurt.”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

“The government didn't care about her, the schools didn't, the scholarship organizations didn't, but this one person did, and sometimes one person could make a world of difference.”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

“When she died, demons were going to torment her for eternity instead of letting her reincarnate. Or worse, they'd let her reincarnate, but she'd be a catfish who lived under a river outhouse. It was only fair. That was what she got for wishing food poisoning on people.”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

“So beautiful. And here. She’d come to find him again. No one ever looked for him. They all knew he wanted to be alone. Except it wasn’t always that way. Sometimes he was alone out of habit. Sometimes it took effort to distract himself from the growing emptiness inside.”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

“Aneh sekali kalau sampai Anda berusaha sekuat tenaga untuk tidak menganggap saya wanita. Hal itu juga bisa menjadi diskriminasi seksual. Menurut pendapat saya, lebih baik kita memeluk perbedaan itu dan saling melengkapi.”
― Rikako Akiyoshi, Holy Mother

“Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“How could I ever tell her how sorry I was? Sorry for all the stupid mistakes I'd made. Sorry for my never-ending selfishness. Sorry that she was so unfortunate as to have inspired this first, and last, tragic love of mine. Sorry also for the things beyond my control — that I'd been the executioner chosen by fate to end her life in the first place.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“As I met her penetrating gaze, read the surprise and the sympathy there, I abruptly yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to dream. Maybe if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Every word we spoke here—each one of them was another pomegranate seed.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Over the years after my return to Carlisle and Esme, as I struggled to relearn all the discipline I'd abandoned, I came to the conclusion that Siobhan might not know anything greater than the call of blood, but I had been born to something better.

And now, the words that had once haunted me, once driven me, came back with surprising force.

The greatest joy of this life.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Let me have my five years, Rosalie," I whispered. "I know it can't last. Let me be happy while happiness is possible. Be part of that happiness. Be my sister, and if you can't love my choice the way I love yours, can you at least pretend to tolerate her?" (421).”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun