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“Things'll get worse before they get better.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“I know what it's like to tell yourself a lie so often that it becomes the truth.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“I want to kiss her more than I want air.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Some people are too toxic to live. They just are.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“But you can’t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. So don’t give up on yourself just yet.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“We’re endgame.”
I wipe a stray tear from the corner of my eye. “What does that mean?”
“It means that we’ll wind up together eventually. It might take a year for us to sort everything out, or two, or ten. Whatever. But it’ll happen.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“She once heard that love shouldn’t be called ‘falling’, because the best love roots you, and makes you grow upwards, taller and stronger.”
― Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop

“He was always going to find you again.'
Nadia smiled. 'I think we were always going to find each other', she said, before thanking him and turning the corner to the bar.”
― Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop

“Life is about how you handle being thrown off course, not discounting yourself from the race because you were thrown off course in the first place.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Love Square

“The desire to be perfect holds us back in so many ways. We don't speak up for ourselves, as we know deep down we should, because we don't want to be seen as pushy, bitchy, or just straight-up unlikeable. When we do speak up, many of us agonize and overthink how to express ourselves, trying to hit just the right note of assertiveness without seeming too "bossy" or aggressive. We obsessively analyze, consider, discuss, and weigh every angle before making a decision, no matter how small. And if we do, heaven forbid, make a mistake, we feel as though our world is falling apart.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“The work here isn't to figure out why they didn't like you, or who's right and who's wrong. It's to practice being okay with the idea that there are some people who will get you and some people who won't...and that's fine.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“If you haven't failed you haven't tried anything new...”
― Reshma Saujani

“If you wait until everything lines up, it’s over.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“But sometimes remembering isn’t for yourself, sometimes you do it just to make someone else smile. Those lies were allowed.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I'm not sure I'm the good girl i once thought i was . I've lost her along the way”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“But sometimes my mouth starts saying words without checking with my brain first.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“What do you do when the things that are supposed to protect you, fail you like that”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“I’ve already learned my lesson here: when you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I don't believe in love."

"It's not a religion," he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Stars are important," I say, laughing.

"Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute.
Rumors eat up dreams without condiments.
Rumors do not have expiration dates.
Rumors can be deadly.
Rumors can get you killed.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“Well, sometimes the people we love the most can hurt us the most.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“There is a calm in the chaos that most folks don’t see.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us