Excerpts from books I've read in the past few years (:

• Do you think we are all there is in the world? Human beings? Top of the food chain. Or do you think we are absolutely nothing? Random specks on a lump of rock, spinning around a fire? Or do you think we are like the toys of a kid who owns too much? Played with now and then and forgotten in between. ~ Saffy in Caddy Ever After by Hilary McKay
• That's what love is. That's what love feels like. It explodes inside you like some beautiful flower that blooms in your heart all at once. But hatred? Hatred sits there and waits till you're alone and quiet and it seeps back into your heart after the love has exploded and faded from memory...This love and hatred thing: Is it a choice? My choice?" ~ Jeremy in Rat by Jan Cheripko
• Instead I hug him. And I am hugged. Hard. And for a long time we stay that way. I feel his chin in my hair, the weight of his head on mine. ~ from Head Games by Mariah Fredericks

& more meaningful quotes

• You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're walking on tiptoe. ~ Merion C. Blakey
• It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is sin. ~ Dr. Benjamin E. Mays