JOHN GREEN

It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

= PAPER TOWNS =

JENNIFER MCMAHON

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

= THE WINTER PEOPLE =

KASIE WEST

Mocking someone else to make us seen deep or intellingent only proves the exact opposite.

= THE FILL-IN BOYFRIEND =

NON PRATT

So. No crying over this one.
You can't lose someone who was never there in the first place.

= TROUBLE =

J.C. ISABELLA

It is easier to hate than to love.

= THE UNOFFICIAL ZACK WARREN FAN CLUB =

GAYLE FORMAN

“But . . .” I grasp for the words like a drowning man reaching for floating debris,“ . . . you said you hated me?”
Mia lets out a long, deep sigh. “I know. I needed someone to hate, and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell to you.”

= WHERE SHE WENT =

GAYLE FORMAN

Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.

= WHERE SHE WENT =

RAINBOW ROWELL

And I say it because I trust her, and because I believe that being miserable about some bad thing that might not ever happen won’t do you any good.

<<Jennifer to Beth>> I disagree. I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn’t hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

= ATTACHMENTS =

CHELSEA FINE

I spent all afternoon trying to shake off my jealousy.  Turns out you can’t shake jealousy off.  You’ve got to pet it and lie to it and soothe it until it settles comfortably in the back of your mind.

= SOPHIE & CARTER =

CHELSEA FINE

It’s funny how, when you’re little, you really do believe anything is possible.

= SOPHIE & CARTER =

CHELSEA FINE

His long scar is fading.  His other scars, the smaller ones that mark up most of his beautiful body, are fading too. Scars fade.  I wonder if pain and hurt fade too.

= SOPHIE & CARTER =

ANIA AHLBORN

“You ever heard the expression ‘Kids don’t lie’?” Jack flipped the bathroom light off and slid into bed. “We both know that’s a bunch of bullshit,” he told her. “Kids lie all the time.”

= SEED =

COURTNEY SUMMERS

“Eddie, I think … sometimes lies bring you to the truth … or help you reconcile with it…”

= FALL FOR ANYTHING =

LAUREN HAMMOND

“Love and hate are such passionate emotions. They are so powerful that they blur the lines between one another. Even though you tell yourself you hate a person if you’ve ever loved them at all, that’s a lie.” She’d stared off blankly when she told me the next part. “I stand by this when I say it, together or not, it is impossible to hate someone you love.”

= HE LOVES ME...HE LOVES YOU NOT =

J. STERLING

“Love isn’t all rainbows and unicorns all the time. And neither is life. Sometimes life is really freaking hard.”

= CHANCE ENCOUNTERS =

ARIC DAVIS

If spring is birth, summer is life, and winter is death, then the fall is dying.

= NICKEL PLATED =

ANIA AHLBORN

“I’ve never seen any miracles,” Reagan said, “but I sure as hell have seen my share of darkness. Does God exist? I don’t know. But I kind of hope he does. Because if he doesn’t? We’re probably fucked.”

= SEED =

COURTNEY SUMMERS

I know some friendships can’t withstand horrible things happening, no matter how strong you think they are. People will never lose the ability to surprise you.

= FALL FOR ANYTHING =

ARIC DAVIS

His theory was that while there were some kids at Northview whose families had money, real money, there were very few of them. And because there were so few, it was almost more awkward for those kids than for the poor kids. A couple years earlier, Luke had gone to an acquaintance’s to hang out, a boy named Jeff Baker. Luke didn’t realize just how well-off Jeff was until they arrived at his house. It was huge! Pool, indoor hot tub, all the kids had their own rooms and bathrooms—it was easily the nicest house Luke had ever been in. Even still, what he remembered most from the visit was Jeff asking him, almost begging him, not to tell anyone else about the house. After that, Luke just figured that different was different, and no kid wants to be the weird one, no matter what the reason is.

= THE FORT =

EUGENE CUSIE

It’s strange how you think you know someone and when they take deep breaths and hold in their pain for so long, how they can change.

= FINDING THE FLOWER GIRL =