292 quotes found
Writer of young adult fiction · American
American writer of young adult fiction
“And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.”
“That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.”
“Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don’t, it fills you up with its emptiness.”
“You can be quiet and go back to kissing me, or you can leave.”
“I'm not so stupid as to believe that you've completely forgotten about your former boyfriend. I know you think there are others here more suited for me and this life, and I wouldn't want you to rus...”
“But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that’s what mothers did.”
“I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, the...”
“Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?”
“At the end of the day, I can't force any of you to treat people the way you should. But it should be on your conscience that whatever law I pass won't do much unless each of you takes it upon yours...”
“She wanted to be herself at all costs.”
“I looked at him and the other two people whose names I’d just learned. “So . . . so this is home then?”Akinli looked at me, perplexed, then turned to Ben and Julie.“She said some girls left her her...”
“I finally made eye contact with the boy in the bed. He lay on his side, a tube in his nose and another in his vein. His cheeks were sunken, and his skin was ghostly pale. His hair might have been b...”