young-adult

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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.	young-adult nerdfighters mystery ya	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.	young-adult ya-lit ya	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."	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." --	young-adult talents	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."	young-adult romance	Kelley Armstrong
d3e1702	Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.	young-adult	Libba Bray
1686dda	Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.	young-adult life love inspirational	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.	young-adult romance fantasy zoey	P.C. Cast
2244055	Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles	shatter-me young-adult hate love inspirational dystopia	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.	young-adult books beauty wisdom offense philip-pullman book belief value children-s-books	Philip Pullman
732a0dd	You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.	young-adult necromancer urban-fantasy	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!	young-adult speculative-fiction	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." --	young-adult necromancer derek ghosts supernatural urban-fantasy	Kelley Armstrong
bdefc8b	"I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die."	young-adult fiction humor	Diana Wynne Jones
8534e78	Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.	young-adult fiction martin-kingsley van-alen-legacy blue-bloods	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.	young-adult vampire	P.C. Cast
2dfb210	The wish of death had been palpably hanging over this otherwise idyllic paradise for a good many years	young-adult humour romance inspirational thriller	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.	young-adult books beauty wisdom offense philip-pullman book plot belief value children-s-books paraphrased	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.	young-adult fiction	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.	young-adult shades-of-london the-name-of-the-star southerners ya	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.	young-adult twilight-saga	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."	young-adult romance love science-fiction	Kresley Cole
c890643	Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.	accidents moïra-fowley-doyle staying-alive the-accident-season young-adult inspiration fantasy heartbreak life love truth inspirational life-goes-on hurt unique	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?	young-adult spiritual life inspirational inheritance eragon inheritance-cycle	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.	young-adult fiction throne-of-glass kingdom-of-ash sarah-j-maas	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.	young-adult queen-s-thief	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.	young-adult sacrifice sarah-j-maas feyre tamlin immortal	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."	young-adult fantasy	Neil Gaiman
12b5a43	"Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?"	young-adult fiction romance	Kresley Cole
589a13c	"I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost."	young-adult fantasy	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.	young-adult dark sarah-j-maas feyre beautiful-quote broken beginning introduction	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.	young-adult romance lux-series opposition paranormal-romance	Jennifer L. Armentrout
a4520ed	You can only chase a butterfly for so long.	young-adult culloden jane-yolen stuart butterfly scottish historical-fiction chase	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."	kissing young-adult funny quote humor love laura making-out miles the-colonel looking-for-alaska sleeping tired teenager kisses sexy	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.	young-adult koa throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas tog	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.	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.	young-adult	Libba Bray
78b6502	The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has -- I'm not kidding.	young-adult school	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.	young-adult celestine flawed ya	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."	young-adult humor	Eoin Colfer
b99c19f	Sharpen your heart.	young-adult dark fiction fantasy hollow-hall elfham prince-cardan jude faerie	Holly Black
4fc67d2	The Lord of Rags and Tatters.	young-adult fantasy dialogue	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."	young-adult cthulhu riley-bay serra-elinsen lovecraft h-p-lovecraft paranormal-romance	Serra Elinsen
201e9d3	We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.	young-adult dreams love	Pete Hautman
03d1570	Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom	young-adult dark fiction enemies dangerous prince-cardan jude faerie	Holly Black
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." --	young-adult romantic romance-funny ushers werewolves zombies vampires	Rusty Fischer
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.	young-adult romantic young-adult-romance	John Green
fccbcf8	I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.	young-adult humor pee paper-towns leaving	John Green
7060fd3	It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!	young-adult carrie-vaughn swashbuckling jill steel wound diana teen ya pirates	Carrie Vaughn
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.	young-adult the-name-of-the-star maureen-johnson ya	Maureen Johnson
ff3d0b5	There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.	young-adult cthulhu riley-bay serra-elinsen lovecraft h-p-lovecraft paranormal-romance	Serra Elinsen
0e31abd	A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.	young-adult john-green paper-towns novel	John Green
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--"	young-adult love rhysand feyre	Sarah J. Maas
95b7703	Guard your mortal heart.	young-adult dark fantasy cruel dangerous prince-cardan jude locke	Holly Black
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-horror young-adult-fiction	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."	young-adult dark boys imprisoned blood tana teens paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya	Holly Black
64f5120	I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?	young-adult love	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.	present suicide young-adult youth future imagination beath decision teenager burden childhood dying	Rebecca Solnit
bf651cc	A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.	young-adult reputation science-fiction	Orson Scott Card
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.	young-adult romance love	Jodi Picoult
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?" --	young-adult mystery	Robert Arthur
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.	young-adult love rhysand feyre	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." --	young-adult reaction	H.W. Brands
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?	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.	young-adult romance love katie-mcgarry first-love	Katie McGarry
6620ad6	Your past comes with you no matter where you go.	young-adult	Dale Peck
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."	young-adult love rhysand feyre	Sarah J. Maas
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.	young-adult love rhysand feyre	Sarah J. Maas
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.	young-adult the-diviners libba-bray new-york	Libba Bray
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.	young-adult the-house-of-the-scorpion science-fiction-ya	Nancy Farmer
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.	young-adult	Juliet Marillier
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.	young-adult travel travel-quotes young-adult-series young-adult-romance travel-writing young-adult-fiction france paris parisians	Maureen Johnson
344189f	What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to live. That's a triumph.	young-adult depression-recovery mental-health	Ned Vizzini
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." --	young-adult fiction fantasy humor gabriella-moretti joseph-carter keepers timeless-series tom-morris novella ya	Laura Kreitzer
6abd03d	Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.	heroes heroism young-adult	Nancy Farmer
3c53eee	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.	young-adult romance love	Jodi Picoult
3317f57	"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.	young-adult	Garth Nix
bb81515	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.	young-adult romance bunny-army bunny-queen chasing-impossible katie-mcgarry pushing-the-limits rabbit bunnies young-adult-romance rabbits ya-romance cute bunny ya	Katie McGarry
9a882ca	I'd like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside.	young-adult courage katie-mcgarry inner-strength	Katie McGarry
2c6ef38	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?	young-adult identity	Penelope Farmer
a9d66e3	We all live within time. It rules us.	time young-adult mental-health	Ned Vizzini
23e7c1d	"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."	young-adult thunder-road katie-mcgarry first-love promise	Katie McGarry
0d7be9f	"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	young-adult fantasy bordertown urban-fantasy ya young-adult-urban-fantasy	Terri Windling
4f99864	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.	young-adult fiction friendship new-adult narrativa	Giorgia Penzo
34ad71a	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?	young-adult fiction fantasy-series fantasy-fiction	Brandon Mull
bbfbc3c	Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.	young-adult	Daria Snadowsky
7b70292	"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."	young-adult thunder-road katie-mcgarry protective	Katie McGarry
ead7b6a	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.	young-adult	Michelle Sagara
bbc9510	"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."	kissing young-adult romance breanna-and-razor romantic-connection thunder-road katie-mcgarry inner-beauty being-in-love	Katie McGarry
9498530	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.	young-adult courage katie-mcgarry	Katie McGarry
c95749f	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.	young-adult romance love katie-mcgarry first-love falling-in-love	Katie McGarry
8b2a97b	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.	young-adult romantic thunder-road katie-mcgarry contemporary-romance	Katie McGarry
fd965e4	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.	young-adult sacrificing katie-mcgarry protecting misunderstanding	Katie McGarry
ef83c99	Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.	young-adult romance truth gospel-truth katie-mcgarry pushing-the-limits rumor hearsay rumors	Katie McGarry
c61cf30	"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."	family-relationships young-adult sibiling-bonding pushing-the-limits novella	Katie McGarry
0c14fae	"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."	young-adult life-lessons katie-mcgarry stella touching-moments emotional jonah growing-up crying	Katie McGarry
eda5025	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.	young-adult mental-health	Ned Vizzini
5b3390d	I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems.	young-adult youth mental-health	Ned Vizzini
97ee53d	[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.	young-adult food-for-thought makes-you-think fantasy-fiction	Michael J. Sullivan
6a61aad	The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.	young-adult imagery	John Green
087ddfb	Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.	young-adult family fantasy portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy brothers guilt	Cornelia Funke
bd09341	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.	fairy-tales war young-adult fantasy war-and-peace portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy peace	Cornelia Funke
d93237f	Which skin shall I give you, Clara Ferber? Do you want fur? Do you want stone?	young-adult fear weakness-quotes portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy skin	Cornelia Funke
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.	young-adult light fiction moon epic-fantasy sun fantasy-fiction young-adult-fiction novel	Brian A. McBride
1bb76be	The best lies stay close to the truth.	lies young-adult truth fairytales young-adult-fantasy truth-and-lies liar	Cornelia Funke
4d2eaf5	Even the Doughskins had to admit it: in this world, only stone could claim to last.	fantasy-young-adult young-adult fantasy-world portal-fantasy stone	Cornelia Funke
dc7d00d	Therese of Austry would have made a great treasure hunter if she hadn't been born the daughter of an Emperor.	young-adult fantasy strong-women treasure-hunting portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy leaders royalty queen	Cornelia Funke
07bacfa	The Dark Fairy touched her chest. No heart, like her sisters. So where did the love come from?	fairy-tales young-adult fantasy love fairytales heartless-love portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy	Cornelia Funke
3244de8	khi ta tre va nhay cam, cung la luc ta hay di gieo dau don nhat	young-adult	Julian Barnes
96278da	--but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.	young-adult depression regrets mental-health	Ned Vizzini
4356b60	I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it	young-adult mental-health	Ned Vizzini
5d3f0d5	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.	young-adult	Stephanie Perkins

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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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John Green

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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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John Green

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"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."

young-adult

Cassandra Clare

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"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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Cassandra Clare

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"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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Kelley Armstrong

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Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

young-adult

Libba Bray

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Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

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Nicola Yoon

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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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P.C. Cast

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Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

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Tahereh Mafi

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"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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Philip Pullman

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You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

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Kelley Armstrong

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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!

young-adult speculative-fiction

Madeleine L'Engle

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"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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Kelley Armstrong

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"I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die."

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Diana Wynne Jones

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Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

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Melissa de la Cruz

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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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P.C. Cast

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The wish of death had been palpably hanging over this otherwise idyllic paradise for a good many years

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John Richard Spencer

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"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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philip pullman

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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.

young-adult fiction

Jane Yolen

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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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Maureen Johnson

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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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Stephenie Meyer

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"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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Kresley Cole

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Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.

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Moïra Fowley-Doyle

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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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Christopher Paolini

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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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Sarah J. Maas

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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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Megan Whalen Turner

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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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Sarah J. Maas

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"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."

young-adult fantasy

Neil Gaiman

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"Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?"

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Kresley Cole

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"I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost."

young-adult fantasy

Garth Nix

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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.

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Sarah J. Maas

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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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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

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Jane Yolen

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"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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John Green

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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.

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Sarah J. Maas

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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.

young-adult

Christopher Paolini

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...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.

young-adult

Libba Bray

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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has -- I'm not kidding.

young-adult school

J.D. Salinger

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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.

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Cecelia Ahern

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"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."

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Eoin Colfer

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Sharpen your heart.

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Holly Black

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The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

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Megan Whalen Turner

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"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."

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Serra Elinsen

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We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

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Pete Hautman

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Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom

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Holly Black

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"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." --

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Rusty Fischer

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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.

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John Green

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I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

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John Green

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It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!

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Carrie Vaughn

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It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

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Maureen Johnson

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There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

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Serra Elinsen

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A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

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John Green

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"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--"

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Sarah J. Maas

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Guard your mortal heart.

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Holly Black

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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.

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Caroline B. Cooney

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"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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Holly Black

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I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?

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Daria Snadowsky

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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.

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Rebecca Solnit

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A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

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Orson Scott Card

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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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Jodi Picoult

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"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?" --

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Robert Arthur

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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.

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Sarah J. Maas

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"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." --

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H.W. Brands

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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?

young-adult

Rachel Cohn

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You look like a corgi

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Stephanie Perkins

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She's my girl now and I'll do anything for her at any time. I'm in love with her.

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Katie McGarry

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Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

young-adult

Dale Peck

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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

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"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."

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Sarah J. Maas

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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.

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Sarah J. Maas

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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.

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Libba Bray

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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.

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Nancy Farmer

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"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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Juliet Marillier

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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.

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Maureen Johnson

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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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Ned Vizzini

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"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." --

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Laura Kreitzer

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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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Nancy Farmer

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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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Jodi Picoult

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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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Garth Nix

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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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Katie McGarry

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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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Katie McGarry

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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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Penelope Farmer

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We all live within time. It rules us.

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Ned Vizzini

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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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Katie McGarry

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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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Terri Windling

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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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Giorgia Penzo

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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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Brandon Mull

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Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.

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Daria Snadowsky

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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

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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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Michelle Sagara

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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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Katie McGarry

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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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Katie McGarry

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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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Katie McGarry

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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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Katie McGarry

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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

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Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

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Katie McGarry

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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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Katie McGarry

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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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Katie McGarry

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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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Ned Vizzini

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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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Ned Vizzini

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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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Michael J. Sullivan

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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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John Green

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Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.

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Cornelia Funke

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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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Cornelia Funke

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Which skin shall I give you, Clara Ferber? Do you want fur? Do you want stone?

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Cornelia Funke

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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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Brian A. McBride

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The best lies stay close to the truth.

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Cornelia Funke

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Even the Doughskins had to admit it: in this world, only stone could claim to last.

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Cornelia Funke

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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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Cornelia Funke

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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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Cornelia Funke

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Julian Barnes

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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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Ned Vizzini

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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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Ned Vizzini

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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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Stephanie Perkins