ebd6b5e
|
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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|
mystery
nerdfighters
ya
young-adult
|
John Green |
3a640a4
|
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
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|
ya
ya-lit
young-adult
|
John Green |
17c2674
|
"She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable. "Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y."
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|
young-adult
|
Cassandra Clare |
dace3a1
|
"I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?" Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line." --
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|
talents
young-adult
|
Cassandra Clare |
f2853a5
|
"You were just worried about me." An exhale, relieved that I had understood. "Yeah" I turned. "Because you think I'm worth it" He put his fingers under my chin. "I absolutely think your worth it." "But you don't think you are." His mouth opened. Shut. "That's what this is about, Derek. You won't let us worry about you because you don't think you're worth it. But I do. I absolutely do."
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|
romance
young-adult
|
Kelley Armstrong |
d3e1702
|
Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.
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|
young-adult
|
Libba Bray |
1686dda
|
Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.
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|
inspirational
life
love
young-adult
|
Nicola Yoon |
a481344
|
Because you are the superhero fledgling. I'm just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.
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|
fantasy
romance
young-adult
zoey
|
P.C. Cast |
2244055
|
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
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|
dystopia
hate
inspirational
love
shatter-me
young-adult
|
Tahereh Mafi |
abdc7e5
|
"When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato' -- meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.
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|
beauty
belief
book
books
children-s-books
offense
philip-pullman
value
wisdom
young-adult
|
Philip Pullman |
732a0dd
|
You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.
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|
necromancer
urban-fantasy
young-adult
|
Kelley Armstrong |
961d6a1
|
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
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|
speculative-fiction
young-adult
|
Madeleine L'Engle |
708d31b
|
"He was trying to tell me something." Derek snorted. "Aren't they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook--if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement." --
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|
derek
ghosts
necromancer
supernatural
urban-fantasy
young-adult
|
Kelley Armstrong |
bdefc8b
|
"I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die."
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|
fiction
humor
young-adult
|
Diana Wynne Jones |
8534e78
|
Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.
|
|
blue-bloods
fiction
martin-kingsley
van-alen-legacy
young-adult
|
Melissa de la Cruz |
9823963
|
If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?' Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice.
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|
vampire
young-adult
|
P.C. Cast |
2dfb210
|
The wish of death had been palpably hanging over this otherwise idyllic paradise for a good many years
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|
humour
inspirational
romance
thriller
young-adult
|
John Richard Spencer |
cccd81e
|
"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.
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|
beauty
belief
book
books
children-s-books
offense
paraphrased
philip-pullman
plot
value
wisdom
young-adult
|
philip pullman |
a51a043
|
Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.
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|
fiction
young-adult
|
Jane Yolen |
483a395
|
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.
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|
shades-of-london
southerners
the-name-of-the-star
ya
young-adult
|
Maureen Johnson |
50a2d3b
|
Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight--a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.
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|
twilight-saga
young-adult
|
Stephenie Meyer |
8dbad8c
|
"When you got captured, I didn't know..." He trailed off, had to chug whiskey before he could continue. "If it'd be like..." "What?" "Like it was with Clotile." "Oh, Jackson, no. I was okay. I'm unharmed." "Didn't know if I'd get there too late," he said with a shudder. Then he crossed over to me, until we stood toe-to-toe. "Evie, if you ever get taken from me again, you better know that I'll be coming for you." He cupped my face with a bloodstained hand. "So you stay the hell alive! You don't do like Clotile, you doan take that way out. You and me can get through anything, just give me a chance."--his voice broke lower "just give me a chance to get to you." He buried his face in my hair, inhaling deeply. "There is nothing that can happen to you that we can't get past." ... "When you say we...?" He pulled back, gazing down at me, his eyes blazing. "I'm goan to lay it all out there for you. Laugh in my face--I don't care. But I'm goan to get this off my chest." "I won't laugh. I'm listening." "Evie, I've wanted you from the first time I saw you. Even when I hated you, I wanted you." He raked his fingers through his hair. "I got it bad, me." My heart felt like it'd stopped--so that I could hear him better. "For as long as you've been looking down your nose at me, I've been craving you, an envie like I've never known." "I don't look down at you! I'm too busy looking up to you." ... "The corners of his lips curled for an instant before he grew serious again. "You asked me if I had that phone with your pictures, if I'd looked at it. Damn right, I did! I saw you playing with a dog at the beach, and doing a crazy-ass flip off a high dive, and making faces for the camera. I learned about you"- his voice grew hoarse -"and I wanted more of you. To see you every day." With a humourless laugh, he admitted, "After the Flash, I was constantly sourcing ways to charge a goddamned phone--that would never make a call." I murmured, "I didn't know...I couldn't be sure." "It's you for me, peekon."
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|
love
romance
science-fiction
young-adult
|
Kresley Cole |
c890643
|
Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.
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|
accidents
fantasy
heartbreak
hurt
inspiration
inspirational
life
life-goes-on
love
moïra-fowley-doyle
staying-alive
the-accident-season
truth
unique
young-adult
|
Moïra Fowley-Doyle |
81325b9
|
Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?
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|
eragon
inheritance
inheritance-cycle
inspirational
life
spiritual
young-adult
|
Christopher Paolini |
dc2bc57
|
He had killed his way across the world; he had gone to war and back more times than he cared to remember. And despite it all, despite the rage and despair and ice he'd wrapped around his heart, he'd still found Aelin. Every horizon he'd gazed toward, unable and unwilling to rest during those centuries, every mountain and ocean he'd seen and wondered what lay beyond ... It had been her. It had been Aelin, the silent call of the mating bond driving him, even when he could not feel it. They'd walked this dark path together back to the light. He would not let the road end here.
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|
fiction
kingdom-of-ash
sarah-j-maas
throne-of-glass
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
1fc8395
|
No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.
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|
queen-s-thief
young-adult
|
Megan Whalen Turner |
0da2093
|
For him, I had done this-for him I'd gladly wrecked myself and my immortal soul. And now I had an eternity to live with it.
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|
feyre
immortal
sacrifice
sarah-j-maas
tamlin
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
c2cec0e
|
"Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found himself touching fingers with, and gazing into the grey eyes of, the lady in the cobweb dress. She smiled at him. "Hello, Bod," she said. "Hello," he said, as he danced with her. "I don't know your name." "Names aren't really important," she said. "I love your horse. He's so big! I never knew horses could be that big." "He is gentle enough to bear the mightiest of you away on his broad back, and strong enough for the smallest of you as well." "Can I ride him?" asked Bod. "One day," she told him, and her cobweb skirts shimmered. "One day. Everybody does." "Promise?" I promise."
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|
fantasy
young-adult
|
Neil Gaiman |
12b5a43
|
"Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?"
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|
fiction
romance
young-adult
|
Kresley Cole |
589a13c
|
"I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost."
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|
fantasy
young-adult
|
Garth Nix |
fa3109e
|
Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.
|
|
beautiful-quote
beginning
broken
dark
feyre
introduction
sarah-j-maas
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
1a630fb
|
I wanted Kat out. Every cell of my being demanded that I protect her, even though I knew she was hella capable of doing so herself, but I wanted her far away from here. Hell, I'd keep her in Bubble Wrap if it weren't so damn creepy and also inconvenient, considering I had a terrible habit of obsessively popping the damn things until not a single bubble was left.
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|
lux-series
opposition
paranormal-romance
romance
young-adult
|
Jennifer L. Armentrout |
a4520ed
|
You can only chase a butterfly for so long.
|
|
butterfly
chase
culloden
historical-fiction
jane-yolen
scottish
stuart
young-adult
|
Jane Yolen |
f7c4989
|
"Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired."
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|
funny
humor
kisses
kissing
laura
looking-for-alaska
love
making-out
miles
quote
sexy
sleeping
teenager
the-colonel
tired
young-adult
|
John Green |
e57e414
|
An unspoken question arose in those green eyes. Aelin? She ignored the silent inquiry, unable to bear opening that silent channel between them again, and surveyed the powerful lines of his body, the sheer size of him. A gentle wind kissed with ice and lightning brushed against her wall offlame, an echo of his silent inquiry. Her magic flared in answer, a ripple of power dancing through her. As if it had found a mirror of itself in the world, as if it had found the countermelody to its own song. Not once in those illusions or dreams had it done that. Had her own flame leaped in joy at his nearness, his power. He was here. It was him, and he'd come for her.
|
|
koa
sarah-j-maas
throne-of-glass
tog
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
ebc810a
|
The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose.
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|
young-adult
|
Christopher Paolini |
f11f588
|
...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.
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|
young-adult
|
Libba Bray |
78b6502
|
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has -- I'm not kidding.
|
|
school
young-adult
|
J.D. Salinger |
50cdd9d
|
Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.
|
|
celestine
flawed
ya
young-adult
|
Cecelia Ahern |
20b7eed
|
"Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done." He winked at Butler. "Are you sure you're at the library? I thought I heard water."
|
|
humor
young-adult
|
Eoin Colfer |
b99c19f
|
Sharpen your heart.
|
|
dark
elfham
faerie
fantasy
fiction
hollow-hall
jude
prince-cardan
young-adult
|
Holly Black |
4fc67d2
|
The Lord of Rags and Tatters.
|
|
dialogue
fantasy
young-adult
|
Megan Whalen Turner |
c384fb2
|
"How can this be real?" I whispered. "I mean you... you... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?" "Try and stop me."
|
|
cthulhu
h-p-lovecraft
lovecraft
paranormal-romance
riley-bay
serra-elinsen
young-adult
|
Serra Elinsen |
201e9d3
|
We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.
|
|
dreams
love
young-adult
|
Pete Hautman |
f3ff774
|
"So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?" "Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated." --
|
|
romance-funny
romantic
ushers
vampires
werewolves
young-adult
zombies
|
Rusty Fischer |
03d1570
|
Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom
|
|
dangerous
dark
enemies
faerie
fiction
jude
prince-cardan
young-adult
|
Holly Black |
7060fd3
|
It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!
|
|
carrie-vaughn
diana
jill
pirates
steel
swashbuckling
teen
wound
ya
young-adult
|
Carrie Vaughn |
e4986ba
|
I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.
|
|
romantic
young-adult
young-adult-romance
|
John Green |
fccbcf8
|
I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.
|
|
humor
leaving
paper-towns
pee
young-adult
|
John Green |
5619f65
|
It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.
|
|
maureen-johnson
the-name-of-the-star
ya
young-adult
|
Maureen Johnson |
ff3d0b5
|
There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.
|
|
cthulhu
h-p-lovecraft
lovecraft
paranormal-romance
riley-bay
serra-elinsen
young-adult
|
Serra Elinsen |
07f74d8
|
"He took my hand, interlacing our fingers. "We can make whatever rules we want. You have every right to question me, push me--both in private and in public." A snort. "Of course, if you decide to truly kick my ass, I might request that it's done behind closed doors so I don't have to suffer centuries of teasing, but--"
|
|
feyre
love
rhysand
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
95b7703
|
Guard your mortal heart.
|
|
cruel
dangerous
dark
fantasy
jude
locke
prince-cardan
young-adult
|
Holly Black |
0e31abd
|
A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.
|
|
john-green
novel
paper-towns
young-adult
|
John Green |
e33e1e0
|
But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
|
|
young-adult
young-adult-fiction
young-adult-horror
|
Caroline B. Cooney |
16d5baa
|
"He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood."
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|
blood
boys
dark
imprisoned
paranormal
paranormal-romance
tana
tana-bach
teens
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
ya
young-adult
|
Holly Black |
bf651cc
|
A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.
|
|
reputation
science-fiction
young-adult
|
Orson Scott Card |
64f5120
|
I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?
|
|
love
young-adult
|
Daria Snadowsky |
9cca028
|
In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.
|
|
beath
burden
childhood
decision
dying
future
imagination
present
suicide
teenager
young-adult
youth
|
Rebecca Solnit |
dbcbc7b
|
Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.
|
|
love
romance
young-adult
|
Jodi Picoult |
f0bb944
|
And though his face was calm, his shoulders thrown back, I said, I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything that I am. His hand squeezed mine in answer before he laid my fingers on his arm, raising it enough that we must have painted a rather courtly portrait as we entered the chamber. You bow to no one, was all he replied.
|
|
feyre
love
rhysand
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
f853de7
|
"Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year." --
|
|
reaction
young-adult
|
H.W. Brands |
06311fd
|
"Disembodied spirits," said his partner, "are not known to use telephones. Neither are spooks, phantoms, or werewolves." "That was in the old days. Why shouldn't they change with the times and be modern, too?" --
|
|
mystery
young-adult
|
Robert Arthur |
4f77d33
|
She murmured, in that particular Nancy way of hers that grates most when my inner bitch is aching to be let loose, 'Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.' My eyes popped open to see her lemon face standing over me. 'SOMEONE,' I hissed, 'HASN'T EVEN WOKEN UP YET. GOD, WHAT IS YOUR ANEURYSM? CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?
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|
young-adult
|
Rachel Cohn |
6f8b74b
|
You look like a corgi
|
|
young-adult
|
Stephanie Perkins |
b2f2886
|
She's my girl now and I'll do anything for her at any time. I'm in love with her.
|
|
first-love
katie-mcgarry
love
romance
young-adult
|
Katie McGarry |
6620ad6
|
Your past comes with you no matter where you go.
|
|
young-adult
|
Dale Peck |
d3af221
|
I walked out of Rhys's touch--realizing he'd kept silent to let me sort it out. Let me figure out how to deal with both of them, as family, but mostly as their High Lady.
|
|
feyre
love
rhysand
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
4acbe19
|
She's your mate, Amren bit at me, not your spy go get her. She is my mate and my spy, I said too quietly. And she is the high lady of the night court. Not a consort,not wife. Feyre is high lady of the night court, my equal in every way.
|
|
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
d0480fa
|
"So I laid a hand on his forearm, savoring the corded strength beneath, and nestled my head back against his chest. "I wish I had days to spend with you-- like this," I managed to say as my eyelids drooped. "Just me and you." "We will." He kissed my hair. "We will."
|
|
feyre
love
rhysand
young-adult
|
Sarah J. Maas |
eb5b7a6
|
I'd love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I'd want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wineglasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose.
|
|
france
paris
parisians
travel
travel-quotes
travel-writing
young-adult
young-adult-fiction
young-adult-romance
young-adult-series
|
Maureen Johnson |
456632a
|
"YA stories feature a young adult protagonist or protagonists and usually focus on that character's journey toward maturity (the tradition of the Bildungsroman.). Learning about love / relationships is an important part of that stage in our lives, so it's not surprising so many writers are building strong romantic elements into their YA stories. I don't remember quite such an emphasis on romance in the books my children read as young adults, so I do think the approach has changed. Within my genre of fantasy, there's been an upsurge of paranormal romance, partly generated by the books, but also reflecting the popularity of this sub-genre with adult readers. There are far more female fantasy writers (and female fantasy readers) than there were, say, twenty years ago, and perhaps female writers are more confident about including a good love story in a fantasy novel.
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|
young-adult
|
Juliet Marillier |
288e0f2
|
"Help me out," I pleaded. "You've left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we're being dealt the consequences." I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make sure it hadn't turned into a tiny lion." --
|
|
fantasy
fiction
gabriella-moretti
humor
joseph-carter
keepers
novella
timeless-series
tom-morris
ya
young-adult
|
Laura Kreitzer |
2c461a6
|
She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.
|
|
science-fiction-ya
the-house-of-the-scorpion
young-adult
|
Nancy Farmer |
e4a65d2
|
The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have died and yet other dreams are being born into squalor and poverty, an uphill climb. It gives a slap to the laundry stretched on lines between tenements, over dirty, broken streets where, even at this hour, hungry children scour the bins for food. The wind has existed forever. It has seen much in this country of dreams and soap ads, old horrors and bloodshed. It has played mute witness to its burning witches, and has walked along a Trail of Tears; it has seen the slave ships release their human cargo, blinking and afraid, into the ports, their only possession a grief they can never lose.
|
|
libba-bray
new-york
the-diviners
young-adult
|
Libba Bray |
344189f
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What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to live. That's a triumph.
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depression-recovery
mental-health
young-adult
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Ned Vizzini |
3c53eee
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Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.
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love
romance
young-adult
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Jodi Picoult |
6abd03d
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Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.
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heroes
heroism
young-adult
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Nancy Farmer |
0d7be9f
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"I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then -- dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways more exciting. The downtown music scene was exploding -- punk and folk music were everywhere -- and it wasn't as expensive to live there then, so a lot of young artists, musicians, writers, etc. etc. were all living and doing crazy things in scruffy neighborhoods like the East Village. I was a Fantasy Editor for a publishing company back then -- but in those days, "fantasy" to most people meant "imaginary world" books, like Tolkien's . A number of the younger writers in the field, however, wanted to create a branch of fantasy that was rooted in contemporary, urban North America, rather than medieval or pastoral Europe. I'd already been working with some of these folks (Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, etc.), who were writing novels that would become the foundations for the current Urban Fantasy field. At the time, these kinds of stories were considered so strange and different, it was actually hard to get them into print. When I was asked by a publishing company to create a shared-world anthology for Young Adult readers, I wanted to create an Urban Fantasy setting that was something like a magical version of New York...but I didn't want it to actually New York. I want it to be any city and every city -- a place that anyone from anywhere could go to or relate to. The idea of placing it on the border of Elfland came from the fact that I'd just re-read a fantasy classic called by the Irish writer . I love stories that take place on the borderlands between two different worlds...and so I borrowed this concept, but adapted it to a modern, punky, urban setting. I drew upon elements of the various cities I knew best -- New York, Boston, London, Dublin, maybe even a little of Mexico City, where I'd been for a little while as a teen -- and scrambled them up and turned them into Bordertown. There actually IS a Mad River in southern Ohio (where I went to college) and I always thought that was a great name, so I imported it to Bordertown. As for the water being red, that came from the river of blood in the Scottish folk ballad which Thomas must cross to get into Elfland. [speaking about
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bordertown
fantasy
urban-fantasy
ya
young-adult
young-adult-urban-fantasy
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Terri Windling |
23e7c1d
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"I promise I'll take care of you," he whispers. "You're safe with me." Even with an army of motorcycle guys outside that door, I firmly believe him."
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first-love
katie-mcgarry
promise
thunder-road
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
a9d66e3
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We all live within time. It rules us.
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mental-health
time
young-adult
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Ned Vizzini |
3317f57
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"Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down.
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young-adult
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Garth Nix |
9a882ca
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I'd like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside.
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courage
inner-strength
katie-mcgarry
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
2c6ef38
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And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know how to be, how to feel like, Charlotte? Were you some particular person only because people recognized you as that?
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identity
young-adult
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Penelope Farmer |
4f99864
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Ho scoperto una cosa inestimabile in questo viaggio durato un anno intero, cioe che ognuno di noi nasce con un destino: salvare una persona, almeno una. E l'unico dettaglio gia scritto della nostra esistenza ed e un compito inconscio. A volte non ce ne rendiamo nemmeno conto. Non sappiamo calcolare quanto sia determinante essere li in quel momento per qualcuno, non ne capiamo l'importanza. Quel qualcuno, pero, non ci scordera mai. Non dimentichera che lo abbiamo afferrato, aspettato, ascoltato. Comunque andra la mia vita, so che mi ricordero di Dario e Lore. Per sempre. Loro sono la colata d'oro massiccio che ha messo insieme tutti i miei frantumi.
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fiction
friendship
narrativa
new-adult
young-adult
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Giorgia Penzo |
bb81515
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Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat.
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bunnies
bunny
bunny-army
bunny-queen
chasing-impossible
cute
katie-mcgarry
pushing-the-limits
rabbit
rabbits
romance
ya
ya-romance
young-adult
young-adult-romance
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Katie McGarry |
9498530
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But there is one person who expected the unexpected from me and the only time I noticed disappointment on his face was when I cowered like a sheep. And I had to take a moment to figure out I'm not ashamed of him. It's him who should be ashamed of me. I've put Razor in an unfair position. He introduced me to his world. Welcomed me with open arms. Made me feel like I belonged and I've asked him to keep a secret when doing so is killing him. And I told him that we would be over...I did the exact thing to him that Clara did to me and that's not okay. No part of it is okay.
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courage
katie-mcgarry
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
ead7b6a
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Everything happens at night. The world changes, the shadows grow, there's secrecy and privacy in dark places. First kiss at night, by the monkey bars and the old swings that the children and their parents have vacated; second, longer kiss, by the bike stands, swirl of dust around feet in the dry summer air. Awkward words, like secrets just waiting to be broken, the struggle to find the right ones, the heady fear of exposure --- what if, what if --- the joy when the words are returned. Love, in the parkette, while the moon waxes and the clouds pass. Promises at night. Not first promises --- those are so old they can't be remembered --- but new promises, sharp and biting; they almost hurt to say, but it's a good hurt. Dreams at night, before sleep, and dreams during sleep. Everything, always, happens at night.
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young-adult
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Michelle Sagara |
c95749f
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My best friend has warned me to stay away. Violet, a girl raised by the Terror, has warned me to stay away, but even after digesting her advice, knowing the rumors and experiencing what I have, I can't leave. The bandage on Razor's arm and the cuts and bruises along his side testify to how dangerous his life is, but with one long look into those beautiful eyes , I know that I'm a lost cause to logic. I've already fallen in love.
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falling-in-love
first-love
katie-mcgarry
love
romance
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
ef83c99
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Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.
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gospel-truth
hearsay
katie-mcgarry
pushing-the-limits
romance
rumor
rumors
truth
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
fd965e4
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I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn't know me has been shot. I don't understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about.
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katie-mcgarry
misunderstanding
protecting
sacrificing
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
8b2a97b
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Violet moves, a readjustment, and I expect her to pull away. But instead, she leans further into me, her head on my shoulder, and her sweet scent becomes a warm blanket. No other place I'd rather be in the world right now. No place at all.
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contemporary-romance
katie-mcgarry
romantic
thunder-road
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
7b70292
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"I promise I'll protect you now. I won't let them touch you again. " "I know you'll try." I can do more than try."
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katie-mcgarry
protective
thunder-road
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
bbfbc3c
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Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.
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young-adult
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Daria Snadowsky |
bbc9510
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"I've hated Snowflake for so long," she says. "But then I met you. And you're the person entire town has trashed, a person belonging to the group I've been raised to believe is evil, and you're the only person who is able to make me feel as if every part of me is beautiful." She is beautiful. Inside and out. My fingers tunnel into her hair again, but this time, I gently knot them in. My heart beats hard, and I open my mouth, hoping that doing so will force the right words. That I can explain being near her makes everything that's impossible about me seem possible. But the words become lodged in my throat and silence paralyzes my tongue. Breanna blinks and the hope that had been on her face disappears as she misreads my hesitation. Her hold on me loosens and she ducks her head. "Don't listen to me. I say too much around you. I was being stupid I..." More words meant to wipe away her admission spill from her mouth, but I'm not listening. My grip on her hair tightens, I lower my lips to hers and I kiss Breanna Miller."
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being-in-love
breanna-and-razor
inner-beauty
katie-mcgarry
kissing
romance
romantic-connection
thunder-road
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
34ad71a
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Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?
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fantasy-fiction
fantasy-series
fiction
young-adult
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Brandon Mull |
97ee53d
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[Lying is] a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are... The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.
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fantasy-fiction
food-for-thought
makes-you-think
young-adult
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Michael J. Sullivan |
c61cf30
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"The pure menace radiating from my younger sister is undeniable. She can hate me, but I need her to know that she has something that Stella never did: a place to fall. "And if he hurts you or if anyone hurts you...you have me." It feels unnatural, but I hug my sister. Her arms are limp at her sides, but she doesn't push me away. "Remember, you have me," I repeat."
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family-relationships
novella
pushing-the-limits
sibiling-bonding
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
0c14fae
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"Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting. "For what?" he whispers. " For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million."
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crying
emotional
growing-up
jonah
katie-mcgarry
life-lessons
stella
touching-moments
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
6a61aad
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The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.
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imagery
young-adult
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John Green |
5b3390d
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I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems.
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mental-health
young-adult
youth
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Ned Vizzini |
eda5025
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There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way.
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mental-health
young-adult
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Ned Vizzini |
087ddfb
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Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.
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brothers
family
fantasy
guilt
portal-fantasy
young-adult
young-adult-fantasy
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Cornelia Funke |
5d3f0d5
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Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.
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young-adult
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Stephanie Perkins |
dc7d00d
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Therese of Austry would have made a great treasure hunter if she hadn't been born the daughter of an Emperor.
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fantasy
leaders
portal-fantasy
queen
royalty
strong-women
treasure-hunting
young-adult
young-adult-fantasy
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Cornelia Funke |
bd09341
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You make peace with one sister only to declare war on the other. It's always like that with peace, isn't it? Always to someone's detriment, already sowing the seed for the next war.
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fairy-tales
fantasy
peace
portal-fantasy
war
war-and-peace
young-adult
young-adult-fantasy
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Cornelia Funke |
1bb76be
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The best lies stay close to the truth.
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fairytales
liar
lies
truth
truth-and-lies
young-adult
young-adult-fantasy
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Cornelia Funke |
4d2eaf5
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Even the Doughskins had to admit it: in this world, only stone could claim to last.
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fantasy-world
fantasy-young-adult
portal-fantasy
stone
young-adult
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Cornelia Funke |
d93237f
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Which skin shall I give you, Clara Ferber? Do you want fur? Do you want stone?
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fear
portal-fantasy
skin
weakness-quotes
young-adult
young-adult-fantasy
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Cornelia Funke |
07bacfa
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The Dark Fairy touched her chest. No heart, like her sisters. So where did the love come from?
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fairy-tales
fairytales
fantasy
heartless-love
love
portal-fantasy
young-adult
young-adult-fantasy
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Cornelia Funke |
96278da
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--but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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depression
mental-health
regrets
young-adult
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Ned Vizzini |
3acc391
|
With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it.
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epic-fantasy
fantasy-fiction
fiction
light
moon
novel
sun
young-adult
young-adult-fiction
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Brian A. McBride |
4356b60
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I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it
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mental-health
young-adult
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Ned Vizzini |
3244de8
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khi ta tre va nhay cam, cung la luc ta hay di gieo dau don nhat
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young-adult
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Julian Barnes |