"'We can't ever be together,' he finished.  'But I always want to know you, even if we're in the same room and you're just saying hi to me over and over again, I'll be perfectly happy.  I'll always want to be sitting across from you.'"
-More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

"It had taken all his control to hide the anger, the desire to pen over Eli's life, and rewrite it into his."
-Vicious by V.E. Schwab

"(So this is how it happens.  This is how girls change for boys.  I am simultaneously annoyed at myself and mildly amazed that I have the ability.)"
-Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw

"Basically we're all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently."
-Robert Brault

"Brokenheartedness is a sisterhood with involuntary membership."
-The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord

"When it all closes in, there are only two kinds of people: best friends and everyone else."
-The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord

"It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different.  They're not.  They're just variations of the same love, variations of the same desire to be close.  And like any love, it's difficult, awesome, treacherous, exhilarating, confusing - and precious."
-Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn