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“He’d taken the dog home that night, just calling him the name of the product as a stopgap, even though I’d told my dad in no uncertain terms not to do this, in case the dog got attached to it. Which of course he did, so now we were stuck with it. And while my first instinct was to be mad about the fact that I hadn’t had a dog my whole childhood, and that my dad got one basically the second I was out of the house, I was just so won over by his cute face and high-pitched bark and whappy tail, it was impossible to be mad. The dog was so cute that with all the updates and pictures I was getting, it had taken all my self-control not to clean out my savings and book a flight home immediately to cuddle him. But my dad assured me that he would be there waiting for me when I came home for Christmas. And when I’d finally met him three days earlier, Zyrtec the dog had more than lived up to expectations.”
― Morgan Matson, The Ballad of Darcy and Russell

“Come on, bro, we have to get out of here— This isn’t a fair fight—”
-Kenji Kishimoto

“You go,” he says, clutching his side. “Go find Nazeera, and then find the other kids. I’ll be fine.”
-Aaron Warner

“You’re not going to be fine,” I hiss. “She’s going to kill you.”
-Kenji Kishimoto

“That’s fine, too.”
-Aaron Warner”
― Taherah Mafi

“Do you know what we did the first time we met?" Fire reflects in his eyes.
We burned my plans for the future." It felt so symbolic at the time, turning my itinerary into ash
He pins me under his gaze until I can't breathe. "And now I've burned mine.”
― Kara McDowell, Heir, Apparently

“You have to understand...If you knew the effect you had on me, how often I think about you, the things I would do for you...I wouldn't stand a chance against you ever again. You would have taken everything from me," he goes on in a rush, like the words are burning him from within, like he has to get it out before the pain becomes overwhelming. "Not just a debating championship or some points for a test or a fancy award or a spot in a competition—but my whole heart. My pride. God, my sanity. It would all be over. You would annihilate me.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You