"She's going to say my name like that again, and I am going to hear music in it I shouldn't hear."
-Another Day by David Leviathan

"Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression. 

Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape.  It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill.  Depression is a party of you; it's in your bones and your blood.  If I know anything about it, this is what I know: It's impossible to escape."
-My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

"She'd never understood how other parents just lost it.  Now she did; children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people."
-The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

"'Besides,' Gabe finished, 'why would she have wings if she wasn't meant to fly?'"
-The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

"There is was again.  Fate.  As a child, that word was often my only companion.  It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights.  It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon.  Fate.  Both my anguish and my solace.  My escort and my cage."
-The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

"But more than that, she learned how to worry.  She, who'd always thought love's only companion was sorrow, learned that worry came hand in hand with love."
-The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

"For a very long time, Viviane and Jack lived in that world people inhabit before love.  Some people called that place friendship; others called it confusing.  Viviane found it a pleasant place with an altitude that only occasionally made her nauseous."
-The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton