"'That is your role, your gift.  Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy.  Do not forget that.'  He takes another sip of his wine.  'There are many kinds of magic, after all.'"
-The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

"I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down.  After a while, they became more like a shorthand for who I was and less like things I actually enjoyed."
-The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro

"I know that I am always alone, even when surrounded by people, so I let the emptiness in."
-We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

"And in our house, we enjoyed our togetherness but we enjoyed our apartness, too." 
-We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

"You go through life thinking there's so much you need.  Your favorite jeans and sweater.  The jacket with the faux-fur lining to keep you warm.  Your phone and your music and your favorite books.  Mascara.  Irish Breakfast tea and cappuccinos from Trouble Coffee.  You need you yearbooks, every stiffly posed school-dance photo, the notes your friends slipped into your locker.  You need the camera you got for your sixteenth birthday and the flowers you dried.  You need your notebooks full of the things you learned and don't want to forget.  You need your bedspread, white with black diamonds.  You need your pillow - it fits the way you sleep.  You need magazines promising self-improvement.  You need your running shoes and your sandals and your boots.  Your grade report from the semester you got straight As.  Your prom dress, your shiny earrings, your pendants on delicate chains.  You need your underwear, your light-colored bras and your black ones.  The dream catcher hanging above your bed.  The dozens and dozens of shells in glass jars. 

The cab was waiting outside the station. 

The airport, I said, but no sound came out.

'The airport,' I said, and we pulled away. 

You think you need all of it.

Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother."
-We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

"Sometime later, we stand side by side at the sinks in the bathroom.  We look tired and something else, too.  It takes me a minute to identify it.  And then I know.

We look young."
-We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

"It was so hard to look at him like this, full-on and unblinking, with nowhere to hide.  I'd spent so much of our time together with him by my side that I wasn't remotely prepared for how facing him would make me quake." 
-Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popovic