"We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial."

• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

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"It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked."

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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"I am not your justification for existence."

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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"Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway."

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman

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"The truth is like the waiting jaws of a monster, a more menacing monster than I’ll ever be. It yawns beneath your feet, and you can’t escape it, and as soon as you drop, it chews you to pieces."

• Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis

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"I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity."

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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"Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for."

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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"So loveliness reigned and stillness, and together made the shape of loveliness itself, a form from which life had parted; solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen."

• To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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"One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history."

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros