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Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes

There are echoes inside him that say, do it right and they will like you.

He wants to hold on to what he’s learned—for a little while. He wants it so much.

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything—all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

For I do not want anyone to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories.

My friend never explained anything to me. He thought, perhaps, that I was like himself. But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me."

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The Outsiders: S.E. Hinton

I could see boys going down under streetlights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

The Darkest Minds: Alexandra Bracken

I felt so much older, then. Not sixteen, not sixty, not even a hundred, but a thousand years old. Older, but not brittle. I felt like one of the oak trees that grew along the highway overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, with deep roots and a strong core.

Never Fade: Alexandra Bracken

"Life isn't fair." I said. "It's taken me a while to get that. It's always going to disappoint you in some way or another."

In The Afterlight: Alexandra Bracken

"Are you sure this isn't a nightmare?" he asked quietly. "And that we won't just wake up?"

"Yes," I said after some time. Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind.

Sharp Objects: Gillian Flynn

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

Strange the Dreamer: Laini Taylor

And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with hysteria, any way you can.

The Hazel Wood: Melissa Albert

There's just this harsh, horrible world touched with beautiful magic, where shitty things happen. And they don't happen for a reason, or in threes, or in any way that looks like justice. They're set in a place that has no rules and doesn't want any.

Muse of Nightmares: Laini Taylor

Death had made her who she was: this unnatural child who never grew up, who never forgot, and who would never forgive.

It was all over. Or maybe it wasn't. The ones who know can't tell us, and the ones who tell us don't know.

Bruja Born: Zoraida Córdova

My body is different and strange and new to me, and I have to be kind to it. I have to learn this version of myself and love her like she deserves.

Every Word You Cannot Say: Iain S. Thomas

And we're not everything we could be, because we're afraid to allow ourselves to exist all at once, because too many people have told us not to.