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“I have done some of the best work of my life because of you. And I know you have done some of the best work of your life because of me. I don’t know a better way to explain what love means to two people like us.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“The first time I let myself fall, it wasn’t hot at all. It was cold. January. There was ice on the sidewalksâ€� at least, that’s what I’d heard. But this girl felt like nectarines and balconies to me. She felt like everything. She felt like a long winter, then a nervous spring, then a sticky summer, and then those last days you never thought you’d get to, the ones that spread themselves out, out, out until they feel like they go on forever. So, August is a person.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“What do you say when The Girl tells you that you're The Girl to her?”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“The truth is, if you go to Warren, no matter what is going on in your personal life—hair trouble, existential malaise, ax murder—you do the reading.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“I told you once I’m not a book to be read,â€� Ayla continued. “I take it back. I’m a book. Read me.”
― Nina Varela, Iron Heart

“A tiny pathetic thought: the warmth of Ayla's touch rivaled the afternoon sun.”
― Nina Varela, Iron Heart

“Just because everyone here knows who you are, and everyone talks about everyone else’s business, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to be the person you know you are. There are things out there for you that you haven’t even thought of yet, that you don’t even know how to think of yet. Who you are here doesn’t have to be the same as who you are out there. And if the person you feel like you have to be in this town doesn’t feel right to you, you’re allowed to leave. You’re allowed to exist. Even if it means existing somewhere else.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Cos I fancy you. I'm hoping that if I go to all this effort you'll look at me and think, 'Well, she might be a dumbass, but she tries'. And then, I dunno, maybe you'll flash me or something.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

“They melted into a series of deep, lush kisses, hot and dizzying and endless, lips moving together, Crier’s mouth opening beneath Ayla’s, the taste of her like summer rain. Ayla pushed into her over and over again, taking her mouth, already addicted to this, to her, to Crier, everything about her, taste and scent and the warmth of her skin under Ayla’s hands.”
― Nina Varela, Iron Heart

“The silent times were the hardest. That was when I had to mourn. I would close one eye and look at my phone, imagine it cracking in half, the way people sitting shiva ripped a piece of clothing. I didn't want to mourn. I didn't want to accept my loss -- not only the loss of communication, but the loss of an idea that my mother was going to be the one to change. It made me feel like a loser. It meant I had wanted something and hadn't gotten it, that I'd been, in some way, rejected. It meant my needs were too big for this world.”
― Melissa Broder;

“Kaede told herself that what she felt was only a little seed; she would simply not water it. It wouldn't grow any larger than this tiny prickle of attraction. She wouldn't let it.

But that night after everyone had left, and they had all spread their blankets on the floor of the hall, Kaede lay awake for some time, trying to make out the sound of Taisin's breathing in the dark.”
― Malinda Lo, Huntress

“I want you to stay in the city for a month."

"Why?"

Because I would miss you. Because I am not ready to let you go.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“Just because the straights in Hollywood don’t know how to tell my story doesn’t mean it’s not out there.”
― Auriane Desombre, I Think I Love You

“Did Automae . . . feel things like that? Could an Automa girl feel that tug in her lower belly, that fishhook pull, making her want more, want harder, want deeper, want sweeter? Want hands in her hair, on her waist, on her hips, wantâ€�? Don’t go there, Ayla told herself, but she couldn’t help it. Yesterday afternoon in the river, she had seen the whole of Crier’s body, and the yearning that drummed through her wasn’t anything she’d felt before, and her own reaction wasn’t anything she’d felt before, the oceanic pulse between her hips, the things she wanted. Skin on skin, fingers intertwined. She’d tracked the drops of water trailing down Crier’s throat, her collarbone, the curve of her back, down her bare legs when she climbed back up onto the riverbank, and looking hadn’t felt like enough. Did Crier feel the same? Could Crier feel the same? Maybe Ayla already knew the answer. The way Crier had touched her in Elderell, hands flying from Ayla’s arms to her face, fingers raking through her hair, lips parting . . .”
― Nina Varela, Iron Heart

“They were still holding hands. They hadn’t let go, not even once. Ayla’s hand was sweaty; there was dirt and sweat and probably blood slicking their palms, but she didn’t want to lose this point of contact. This point of warmth, solidity, in the middle of a huge and frightening thing. The machinery of war.”
― Nina Varela, Iron Heart

“Oh, she deserves so many good things, and I want to be one of them”
― CB Lee, Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix

“No one wants to be a real hero; it’s too hard. My husband didn’t give a damn whether the work I was doing was noble as long as it appeared to be. When I killed someone then - something I did a lot more than I do now - it was for the greater good. It was such bullshit.”
― Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench

“She flipped her hair over to the opposite side. My stomach flipped over to its opposite side.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Moonlight silvered the long line of Lucy’s back as she sank to her knees—not submissively, as one conquered, but as a queen kneels at a coronation.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“You seem hard to hold, I guess. Your attention."

He took a moment to reply. "That might be true, usually. But you hold mine.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“Even a love in mourning still had sparks in it.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“In fact, a whole ex-girlfriend themed ghost train sounded genuinely terrifying. You'd get in and instead of a mummy mannequin covered in toilet roll popping out, it's her and you look down and you're wearing a baggy old jumper with a stain on the front. You turn the corner and you find yourself being forced to scroll through her Instagram and there are replies from a girl with tattoos and she looks exactly like the celebrity your ex fancies most. Right at the end, they play a video on a loop that's just screenshots of all the pathetic texts you sent when you were too heartbroken to have any dignity.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Sounds like you'd do a bunch," Liv breathed.

Beneath the brim of her hat, I found her eyes.

"You would not rest," I said.”
― Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

“Girls shimmered, as if all the light shone on them and not on the boys at all.”
― Carrie Mac, 10 Things I Can See From Here

“... she was just another girl I would never get to know.”
― Carrie Mac, 10 Things I Can See From Here

“If you start freaking out, call me and we’ll go for a walk. Or we’ll ride the night buses. We’ll smoke some pot and get the giggles and eat a whole bag of chips. We’ll walk up and down the alleys looking for treasure and avoiding skunks. Any of those things. None of those things. Whatever you can think of. In fact, you don’t even have to think about all the silly things. I can do that too. Your girlfriend will be in charge of distractions.”
― Carrie Mac, 10 Things I Can See From Here

“It only takes about fifteen minutes for me to get totally lost. We’re somewhere in the outskirts of the property, but I’ve pushed us past the tree line too far to remember which way we came from. But I’m not going to admit it to her. I wrack my brain for any of Lady Artemis’s navigation skills. Unfortunately, almost all of them rely on the nighttime constellations, and I am not spending six hours out here with Atalanta.”
― Elizabeth Tammi, Outrun the Wind

“They had met at the club and Bertha had fallen in love with her, as she always did fall in love with beautiful women who had something strange about them.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Alex neigt den Kopf. Ihr Mund trifft auf meinen. Und dann sterben meine Bedenken. Sie sterben alle auf einmal.”
― Anne Freytag, Den Mund voll ungesagter Dinge

“Rug muncher!”
― Carrie Mac, 10 Things I Can See From Here