February 2012
5 posts
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“I can never tell when she’s over the party; the party’s usually all...”
– Courtney Summers (Some Girls Are)
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“The thing about being drunk is people want to congratulate you for it, often in...”
– Courtney Summers (Cracked Up To Be)
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“But he used to look at her like he loved her. Which I think he did. But she...”
– Mary Downing Hahn (Mister Death’s Blue-eyed Girls)
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“Because I do want. I’m not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there,...”
– Lauren Oliver (Pandemonium)
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“Imagine four years.
Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two...”
– Courtney Summers (Cracked Up To Be)
January 2012
14 posts
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“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s...”
– Lauren Oliver (Pandemonium)
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“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age:...”
– Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
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“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of...”
– Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
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“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist...”
– Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
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“the key to a happy family life was for there not to be a family – or at least,...”
– Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
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“What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.”
– Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
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“She was my sister; she loved me in spite of her menstrual cycle, and I was the...”
– Jay Clark (The Edumacation of Jay Baker)
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“Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of...”
– Lauren Oliver (Pandemonium)
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“In that moment,
I realize
a circle of love
is ten times better
than a...”
– Lisa Schroeder (I Heart You, You Haunt Me)
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Cheekiness was often a sign of intelligence. So Scarlett usually liked it when Mary was being cheeky. My brain daughter has insulted me yet again! Sometimes, though, it was just tiring, and even Mary’s snores sounded cheeky.
“Oh, shut up, Mary!” said Scarlett.
And Mary did. Because if cheekiness was often a sign of intelligence, so was keeping your mouth shut.
-Roddy Doyle...
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“The beauty of the island wasn’t limited to its turquoise waters or green...”
– Sarah Jio (The Bungalow)
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“She didn’t care. She wanted to collect stuff – secret smells and things from the...”
– Jenny Downham (You Against Me)
December 2011
5 posts
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“I wondered what would happen if she went to sleep right here, in the gravel at...”
– Nova Ren Suma (Imaginary Girls)
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“The story you choose to tell isn’t always the story you believe.”
– Nova Ren Suma (Imaginary Girls)
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“Ruby said I’d never drown—not in deep ocean, not by shipwreck, not even by...”
– Nova Ren Suma (Imaginary Girls)
November 2011
8 posts
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“It seemed not an invasion but a spectacle.”
– Caroline Moorehead (A Train in Winter)
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“Instead I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had....”
– David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
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“This is the thing they don’t tell you about being a third wheel—it’s not like...”
– David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
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“I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.
But the...”
– David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
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“When you say someone looks “haunted,” it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about...”
– David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
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“Empty but not void. Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the...”
– David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
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“My thoughts always exist within a windstorm; they have to be strongly rooted in...”
– David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
October 2011
39 posts
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“It’s the future that keeps us from dying. If it were only a question of...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“Each return creates a new misrepresentation on the surface of the past; when we...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“Our deeds, our desires, our dreams all have the same consistency. Killing a man,...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“I can recount, retrace the steps; but the substance of life, that links one step...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“Our lives wait until our backs are turned to move ahead. As soon as we observe...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“I existed because he loved me and I loved him because he made me exist. Banished...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“I don’t want to have to prove to him that I love him; for me, it’s...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“I’m not happy on my own, but I’ve also lost the certainty that...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“(Which proves that in spite of all my denials I have not completely lost the...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“It’s the loves we haven’t lived that are the hardest to forget.”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“I’m in love with him today as I perhaps would never have been if we...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“If we want our memories to retain a little of their magic, we must learn to...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“I think he gave the impression of running away because he wasn’t in the...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“I had feared this moment so much that I no longer had the strength to be...”
– Emmanuel Kattan (Love Alone)
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“I was dead when I was alive, and I didn’t even know it.”
– Tracey Porter (Lark)
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“The robbery was not without consequences. The consequences were the point of the...”
– Andrew Kaufman (The Tiny Wife)
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“Useless was one of the alchemist’s favourite words, and he used it...”
– Lauren Oliver (Liesl & Po)
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“The earnest and untiring search for the beautiful… lists photography above...”
– Unsigned, “The Present Aspect of Amateur Photography,” American Amateur Photographer, 1, no.1 (July 1889): 5.