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The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

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It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy gloves. -Beloved, Toni Morrison

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Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.

David Levithan, Love is the Higher Law

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“True love will triumph in the end – which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it is the most beautiful lie we have.”

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart.”

— Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply

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“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”

— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

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Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.

Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

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My mama knew herself, and there’s a fearsome power in that. Knowing exactly who you are and exactly what you’re capable of. Most folks would call it arrogance, I suppose. But most folks are fucking fools.

Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

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Who are your favorite BookTokers to watch? Anyone follow any great TikTokers?

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It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye.

Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

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Just finished listening to this book on Scribd. It was sooo good. Loved it. Made me have all the feels on and off.

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He pretends to be less special than he is because the world has punished him for loving himself.

N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

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The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a performance just the same.

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book

Stephen King

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I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.

Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom