• autoboyography, christina lauren

"love fails for a million reasons - distance, infidelity, pride, religion, money, illness. why is this story any more worthy? it felt like it was. it felt important. living in this town is suffocating in so many ways. but if a tree falls in the woods, maybe it makes no sound. and if a boy falls for the bishop's closeted son, maybe it makes no story."

• the little prince, antoine de saint-exupéry

"to me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. and i have no need of you. and you, on your part, have no need of me. to you i am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. but if you tame me, then we shall need each other. to me, you will be unique in all the world. to you, i shall be unique in all the world...”

• the red queen (series), victoria aveyard

"'so she really is the lightning girl. and this one’s a...' he gestures across the jet, to shade, searching for a word to describe his ability. 'jumper,' shade offers with a respectful nod. 'jumper. okay. what about you, boy?' he nudges kilorn with his elbow, blind to the boy’s fading smile. 'what can you do?'

'i catch fish,' he says."

• the grandmaster of demonic cultivation, mo xiang tong xiu

"the poisonous needle had been pulled out, tossed into some random corner. all of the pain had been instantly wiped away. wei wuxian murmured to himself, 'how strange. why can someone as boring as him always make me so happy?'"

• when you reach me, rebecca stead

“i pictured the world. i pictured the world millions of years ago, with crazy clouds of gas everywhere, and volcanoes, and the continents bumping into each other and then drifting apart. okay. now life begins. there are animals, then humans, looking almost all alike. [...] now fast-forward. the earth is still making loops around the sun. there are humans all over the place, driving in cars and flying in airplanes. and then one day one human tells another human that he doesn’t want to walk to school with her anymore. 'does it really matter?' i asked myself. it did."

• fangirl, rainbow rowell

"what's that thing you wrote about simon once, that his eyes followed baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? that's you. you can't look away from him.”