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“My lessons from my mother’s life are many, but one that stings the most and the one I want to imbue in my heart is to not judge people negatively by how they act, even if they look normal, or have been normal in your past, because you never know what they have to fight inside — something they never chose to have.
The answer to Dustin walking was not willpower. He was not born to walk, and while trying made us better people, more practice wasn’t the answer — compassion was. The answer to the feeling that I was losing my mother slowly over the years was not to try to motivate her into a new perspective to magically fix all the problems — it was love.”
― Darcy Leech, From My Mother

“You’re delusional.” “Am I? Did I only imagine the need pulsing through your magic as you kissed me back?” “Kissed you back? Please. I was trying to push your tongue away.”
― Ella Summers, Mercenary Magic

“You do a great many things for strangers, Katarina. What are you willing to do for your friends?”
― Ally Carter, Perfect Scoundrels

“She rolls over with a little protesting noise, reaching sleepily after me. Then she begins to register the raindrops as they connect with her skin, and she sits up with straight with a gasp. I'm busy sitting up too, because when you go to sleep wrapped around a pretty girl, there are some things going on first thing in the morning that you don't exactly want making headline news.”
― Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars