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“‘we are not only one thing forever. We’re allowed to change at any point in our lives. We don't have to be stuck with a label someone else assigns us. Gods, we don't even have to stick to a label we give ourselves. So, you can be bi or pan or a lesbian or queer, and tomorrow you may have a better sense of who you are, or tomorrow you can be a big ole queer mess and figure it out fifty years from now.’"

-Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro, The Sun and the Star

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“‘The more you live life, the more your life sort of grows around the hole in your heart. And sometimes a person comes along and helps you build a whole new room in your heart, and you get to fill that with love and memories.’”

-Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro, The Sun and the Star

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“Will had heard love described in so many dramatic, bizarre ways over the years, but no one had described it like this: It’s like drifting down a river of pain and knowing you are safe. It’s like holding a person in your arms and realizing they are an interlocking piece of a puzzle you hadn’t known how to assemble. It’s like staring into a dark and treacherous expanse, unsure of what awaits you but finding comfort in the fact that you wont have to face it alone. It was a son of Apollo falling for a son of Hades. It was this.”

-Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro, The Sun and the Star

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“‘[Love] lies beside anger and hatred, because only those we truly love can truly disappoint us.’”

-Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

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“When you fall for someone, you see your whole life with them. But when they die before that future can come true, you're no longer falling— you're crashing.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“While Death-Cast can only tell someone when they will die, they can't predict how someone's life will change on their End Day. The Decker must make those discoveries themselves by living with the fullest of hearts, down to the last beat.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“Grief is strange, and it can make you miss someone who was never good for you.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“Mateo wants to, but he doesn’t know how to. And he knows how to, but he doesn’t want to. Actually, he wants to and he knows how to, but he doesn’t know how to get out of his head to do anything. He ends up just being stuck. For someone who’s often praised for his kindness and generosity, Mateo sure can be his own worst enemy.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“Now look at Mateo. Given the gift of life, and too scared to open it. Mateo is trying to be brave, but it’s much harder than people think. He doesn’t agree with those who believe fear to be a choice. There have been many times he would have liked to fight his way out of fear’s entanglements, where he would have chosen to live, but it also felt like fear had this impossibly tight grip on him, like tentacles wrapped around his neck and wrists and ankles, holding him back.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“I hold out my fist for a pound, but Mateo goes for a handshake. Then as I open my fist, he forms his. He’s blushing and seems upset— not pissed like that Rufus kid back at the pawnshop— but disappointed in himself like he can’t do anything right. All that shit is valid, I definitely went through a lot of anger and shame when I was figuring out life without my parents. There were never any magic words that made me feel better when I was deep in it, and I don’t know this kid enough to even try casting some spell on him. I just keep it real.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“I think I could be a hundred years old and not be ready to step foot at Ground Zero, where my parents and thousands others died. But waiting until it’s your End Day to start living means you won’t have time to do it all. Your life will be divided into firsts and lasts and nevers. I don’t want to die never having stood where my parents last did. I’m going to make this a first.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“It’s heartbreaking how much it costs to be alive when you’re always dying.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“I write short stories because I am one. I wish I was a novel. Breaths away from midnight, I know my final chapter is close. I look up at Valentino, wondering what life could’ve offered if I had more pages in me.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“‘Here’s the truth no one ever wants to admit when death is on the horizon, or when you’re deep in that grief— as long as you keep existing, you’ll keep breathing, and if you’re breathing, one day you’ll start living again.’”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“It’s not fair how someone can do everything right and still be hurt because someone else does one thing wrong.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“Freedom should be freeing, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be heartbreaking.”

-Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

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“The hills and trees before me, the worms and lions, stones and tender buds, Daedalus' loom, all wavered as if they were a fraying dream. Beneath them was the place I truly dwelt, a cold eternity of endless grief.”

-Madeline Miller, Circe