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Gayle Forman
“I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.”
Gayle Forman, If I Stay

Veronica Roth
“Hey, Peter, I say. Remember what a target is?”
Veronica Roth, Divergent

Diane Ackerman
“...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.”
Diane Ackerman

June Hur
“What need has the king for a thousand courtesans? I cannot possibly imgaine wanting a thousand husbands."
"Because rape - "He flicked an uneasy glance my way, as though afraid to offend my womanly sensiblities. But I did not shy away from the word. How could I when it was the reality my sister lived with? " Because rape is about power; it is never about desire or love," he answered quietly. "His majesty is a powerhungry beast with a voracious hunger for more, and what better way to display that he reigns supreme than by taking what is precious to his own people?”
June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves