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"Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out."

Janet McNally, Girls in the Moon

"Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another."

Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

"Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you."

Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

"It's not fair. It's not fair that he lets his rage take over, that he lets it rule him. I don't know why he has to let it rule him. I don't know why he has to be two people. I don't know why he gets to be two people, and I only get to be me, the one who is here to take what he has to give, and who is here to pick pu the pieces afterward."

Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

"I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely."

Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

"Because the truth is, it isn't worth loving something if you aren't going to love it all the way."

Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band

"We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose."

Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

"You smell good," he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled. "Really?" "Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon."

Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

"I hate you," I muttered.Noah smiled wider. "I know."

Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

"I’m looking to make a miracle"

Dana Reinhardt

"This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying."Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen.""Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets."Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life."

Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

"Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen."

Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

"When the mind is free, magic happens."

C.G. Rousing

"The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh."

Laura Kreitzer, Fallen Legion

"Happiness isn't always easy," he'd said. "But it's a priority."

Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band

"I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure."

Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

"She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally."

Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

"Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air."

Priya Ardis

"So it’s fate then?” I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, “Us being together?”“Absolutely,” Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.Who was I to argue with Fate?"

E.J. Stevens

"I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It circled and arced high in the air until it slammed against the side of the dining hall with a crack and fell.I sat down in the dirt. Then I lay down in the dirt.Because not only was there no trail to follow, there was no evidence he’d ever been here.There was no evidence any of them had been here."

Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass

"I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”“How would you introduce her?” I asked.“I’m just going to say her name,” he said."

Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

"I live my life until I start the cycle of my dreams,then I leave and search for you until I die.When I come back,I live to remember,I live to find you"

Molly Bryant, Wandering Souls

"Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel."

Priya Ardis

"And your green eyes are the color of the hills- the color of my home.' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Aye, there's something about you, Lindsey Waters."

Cyndi Tefft

"Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it."

Jodi Meadows, Incarnate

"Raven scowled through his too-long bangs. “The Angel Song doesn’t hurt humans. It only affects the evil within.” “Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds,” Mace mumbled."

Heather Burch, Halflings

"Hello, dinner. It’s me, I’m starving. And I know where you live."

Lauren Hammond, Famished

"So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine they are right back again."

Kea Alwang, Treehugger

"You know the kind of smile I’m talkin’ about. That flirty, cute, bite-your-bottom lip ‘cause his smile is so stinkin’ perfect—that kind of smile."

Lynn Mitchell, June 15th

"I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body."

Wendy Higgins

"Holy Bon Jovi, the queen of darkness actually had a soul."

Lynn Mitchell, June 15th

"It washed all over me and through me, into the floor and then it was gone. I never cried for my Da again after that, and God's presence has been with me ever since.” - Adien MacRae, BETWEEN"

Cyndi Tefft

"Why didn't you let me die? You could have finally been free.""I gave up trying to imagine a world without you." - Essallie & Kayden"

Alivia Anders, Obumbrate

"GET IN" he says, getting in on the driver side. I get in with no questions. Okay. This is a bad movie waiting to happen-I'm getting in a car with a guy I just met today who is keeping secrets from me. What the hell is wrong with me? I'm too scared to speak or ask or run away, though. So I just get in and put on my seat belt. I am so stupid."

Sara Daniell, Visions

"But as Ana pulled away on a west-bound highway with a werewolf riding shotgun and her thirst for blood calling yet again, she had this thought: Maybe a Misfit could never be normal, no matter how badly it wanted to."

Ayul Hendricks-Levy, The Gathering of the Chosen

"Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone."

Rusty Fischer, Ushers, Inc.

"I was in love with him. I knew that much was true. Love was the swelling, hopeful feeling in my chest every time I saw him. Love was the way I could forget about everything when I was with him. Love was the catch in my breath when he looked at me in his intense way. Love was the gasp he could draw out of me with the simplest of touches. Love was the way I could... I could be myself around him, know that I didn't need to be perfect or worry about what he was thinking, because he accepted me."

Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

"Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again."

Cyndi Goodgame, Daughter of Anat

"I was the silent and ever present figure in your life...but you.” I kissed the back of her hand softly and closed my eyes. "You've always been the meaning of mine."

Shawn Kirsten Maravel, Severance

"I didn't want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly."

Terri Clark, Hollyweird

"Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his eyes linger over me, stopping here and there in the most uncomfortable places, I know he isn’t really even seeing me as I am. The bloodshot eyes staring out of the alcohol-flushed face are seeing a girl, nearly of age, who owes him a tremendous debt of gratitude.--Rocky Evans"

Gwenn Wright, Filter

"I believe in you, Sonya. You're a girl who can do impossible things. No one like you has walked this world. I regret not realizing that sooner."

Kathryn Purdie, Crystal Blade

"Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say…"

Mari Mancusi, Stake That

"Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires."

Mari Mancusi, Stake That

"So not only do I have to go out and fight evil villains, I have to take up woodworking, too?"

Mari Mancusi, Stake That

"I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert."

Mari Mancusi, Stake That

"Once bitten, totally smitten."

Mari Mancusi, Stake That

"I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken."

Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

"Popularity is teenage heroin."

Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

"So much of what people believe makes no sense, Wylie."

Kimberly McCreight, The Outliers

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