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I don’t know about you, but I love reading quotes. Quotes that come from books, speeches, etc. I truly just find so much joy in reading the way that others word things. So I thought that I would type out some of the best quotes I have read over the years from a few books.

^{Getaway By Zoje Stage}

^{“Nature preferred to reveal her gifts to the truly attentive, and technology would sully that.” p. 27}
^{“There were no words, so none of them spoke.” p. 28}
^{“In some places, the universe revealed its soul.” p. 28}
^{“The artist would dip her brush into a vast palette throughout the day-pastels would bleed from blue to pink to buff to the electric shades of sunset-until finally it would be the moon’s turn, though she preferred more secretive silks, in tones of ink and silver.” p. 29}
^{“And it was a comfort, this spectacularly dissimilar evidence that if the universe made everything-even the great canyon-it had made her, too.” p. 29}
^{“The breeze took a more tactile approach and caressed her cheek- “Hello dear, welcome back.” p. 64}
^{“Tilda met her eyes-no, Tilda peered into her soul, that was what it felt like.” p. 83}
^{“They heard the river roaring its hello.” p. 103}
^{“The rocks were eavesdropping, and Imogen felt the flush of shame, as if they’d seen her naked.” p. 112}
^{“Imogen recalled a line from a Leonard Cohen song and something within her cracked a little, willing to let the light in.” p. 114}
^{“Being angry felt safer than being scared, but Imogen couldn’t keep it up for long.” p. 117}
^{“Everything about him was begging for a good story, but whenever she started to get a picture of him, it went blurry again.” p. 136}
^{“No one thinks of themselves as evil.” p. 142}
^{“And just then, the young heroine from her unwritten fairy tale appeared in her mind to remind her she didn’t yet exist. To beg Imogen to bring her to life. I have more stories to tell.” p. 252}
^{“The race in which she watched everyone speed past her while she made no effort to keep up. She didn’t mind that Beck was winning the race, but she didn’t want to be left so far in the dust that she couldn’t join the celebration at the finish line.” p. 252}
^{“There were things I used to want, and I pushed them away for so long, until eventually I believed I didn’t want them anymore.” p. 261}
^{“The only real difference between them was that she’d directed all her frustrations and anger inward, attacking herself while Gale directed his outward.” p. 262}
^{“The thousand ghosts fast on the wind, threatening to catch up to him.” p. 265}
^{“Their heartbeats begged the prayers they couldn’t speak.” p. 270}
^{“She couldn’t concentrate on the present for her fear of the future.” p. 270}
^{“It was a tricky balance to keep your reasons to live present in your mind while not letting them become a distraction, or a source of destruction; Beck understood she couldn’t fall apart.” p. 274}
^{“And this time she would not be still, she would not hide.” p. 298}
^{“The fragile creature that lived inside her, often hiding its head beneath a wing, came to the surface and saw the consequences of her wrath. It wanted to weep. It wanted to erase time and bring him back to life. It thrived on love and wanted to love him harder, better, so none of this needed to happen.” p. 316}
^{“She understood the creek, and the creek said everything that needed to be said.” p. 319}
^{“It was a good day, a weird kind of good, but good.” p. 330}
^{“That was all it had been, though time had stretched and spun and toyed with them like a cat with a mouse under its paw, indifferent to torturing a living thing until its heart gave out.” p. 331}
^{“They didn’t know how nature could bring you to your knees, in awe, in misery, in prayer, in everlasting gratitude.” p. 340}
^{“Anyone could tumble from the edge of the earth.” p. 340}

^{Crash by Lisa McMann}

^{“But if my mother, Paula, is the backbone of Demarco’s Pizzeria, my father, Antonio, is the broken leg that keeps struggling to catch up.” p. 4}
^{“Sawyer turned our friendship off like a faucet, but I can’t help it-my faucet of love has a really bad leak.” p. 10}
^{“It’s a weird thing to find out about your family, you know?” p. 13}
^{“Busy means we can pay the rent, and whatever else comes up. Something always does.” p. 14}
^{“The vision is badgering me, trying to get my attention.” p. 46}
^{“This is an evil game that is impossible to win.” p. 99}
^{“This feels so much bigger than me, bigger than anything I can do, and I’m swallowed by it.” p. 100}
^{“Those good things in his life weren’t enough for him. They couldn’t stop his disease.” p. 100}
^{“The fear is still there, all right, but it’s…I don’t know. More manageable. Softer, maybe.” p. 114}

^{Bang by Lisa McMann}

^{“Why does danger make love so much more intense?” p. 103}
^{“Why are you being so quiet?’ ‘I’m not sure’” p. 134}
^{What the heck are we supposed to do? We’re teenagers.” p. 174}
^{“It’s not worth dying for, okay?” p. 193}
^{“So all I can do is lie on my bed in the dark, alone, and stare at the flashing light that pulses on my wall, thinking about the horrible event that happened today, and wondering why I’m so freaking cold inside.” p. 220}

^{Gasp by Lisa McMann}

^{“The truth is, we could all probably use some therapy right now. We’re a mess.” p. 18}
^{“These people-this is what’s mine.” p. 30}
^{“My dad made a joke. And I remember when I used to love him.” p. 35}
^{“I almost cried at that. I don’t know why, other than it sounds so normal.” p. 39}
^{“‘Invincible,’ I repeat. He nods and looks away. “Because I need you to be.” p. 42}
^{“We look at each other, both thinking the same thing. We’re not going to make it.” p. 88}
^{“Trying to get rid of all the anger that was stored up inside me. I imagine it escaping my lungs and leaving my fingertips. And it feels like all the negative crap is finally beginning to clear out.” p. 112}
^{“And this time I’m keeping my life vest to myself.” p. 154}
^{“My chance to change the game. So even though it’ll probably be really hard, I’m going to take it. I am taking it.” p. 253}
^{“I wonder about their stories and the people who have come in and touched their lives, and then disappeared again…or stayed in them. But those are not my stories to tell.” p. 273}

^{Arctic Witness by Heather Woodhaven}

^{“She had to keep moving or die trying.” p. 26}
^{“Like pausing an old movie before she’d seen the ending.” p. 59}
^{“She was growing more awake, not less, despite the exhaustion.” p. 60}
^{“Sean’s insides turned cold.” p. 84}
^{“This is my home. I can’t be scared to be here. I’ve always loved going until the road ends.” p. 86}
^{“She stepped closer, and it was like two magnets coming together.” p. 101}
^{“Emotionally, her insides were vibrating so hard she was going to come unglued.” p. 126}
^{“She looked up to the gray clouds gathering above her.” p. 126}
^{“Like if they looked at each other too long, they might see everything they were trying so hard not to say.” p. 127}
^{“Maybe she was right to fear he’d see more in her, because his apology wasn’t about not catching the guy” p. 128}
^{“His last two words reverberated with emotion.” p. 133}
^{“Her eyes burned with unshed tears, but she refused to cry for him, for them, for that mother and the child he’d found.” p. 137}
^{“Delving into things from the past was like stepping into an unmarked minefield.” p. 141}
^{“Believing isn’t a one-time thing.” p. 156-157}
^{“Like a frayed rope, the rein was barely intact.” p. 158}
^{“For a small second, he felt like her hero again and not the one who had caused her pain.” p. 172}
^{“You have to appreciate your surroundings wherever you are in order to stay alive.” p. 178}
^{“There’s something about being in nature. It’s much easier to believe that God’s in control and I’m not when I’m out here.” p. 179}
^{“If they’d both had faith, would they have handled things differently?” p. 181}
^{“She knew she could face anything as long as they were together. But they weren’t.” p. 184}
^{“As long as I’ve already made my requests known to HIm, I try not to complain with the same mouth and lungs He created for me.” p. 207}
^{“It’s still pretty hard to remember that I’m not alone.” p. 207}
^{“To make his requests known, but then acknowledge he wasn’t God and move on.” p. 212}
^{“A laugh playing on her features.” p. 229}

^{Covert Amish Investigation by Dana R. Lynn}

^{“The idea of going back to that place was like standing on the edge of a black hole, unable to avoid being sucked into it.” p. 12}
^{“But doing the right thing didn’t untie the knots in her stomach.” p. 14}
^{“Distaste tasted like ashes on her tongue.” p. 15}
^{“He’d shrugged the feeling of wrongness away, but now he understood.” p. 19}
^{“His gaze was so intense she had to avert her eyes.” p. 41}
^{“Worrying never solved anything.” p. 42}
^{“He’d help her. Then he’d let her go again.” p. 57}
^{“Casting her gaze up, his eyes met her, a glimmer of a question in them.” p. 59}
^{“She flinched away from that thought.” p. 66}
^{“Observation could often tell you more than talking.” p. 67}
^{“I will not stand by and let any harm come to my family or my neighbors. No matter what orders I have been given.” p. 74}
^{“The skin under her eyes was blue with fatigue.” p. 76}
^{“Had she failed him, or had he failed her?” p. 82}
^{“The memories had nearly suffocated her.” p. 84}
^{“The words twisted inside her like a blade, slicing deeper into her already-shredded heart.” p. 92}
^{“A prisoner of her own terror.” p. 101}
^{“In that instant, he dropped the bitterness he’d been carrying around like a shield.” p. 102}
^{“He could easily spot the soul-deep woundedness in her gaze.” p. 104}
^{“How did one survive without faith?” p. 105}
^{“The lights blazing in her eyes burrowed inside his chest.” p. 108}
^{“His finger grazed her cheek, leaving a tingling path in its wake.” p. 110}
^{“Wrapped in silence, charged with emotions.” p. 130}
^{“It had to be between her and God, although he would definitely do his best to flame the spark to life.” p. 142}
^{“God always provides.” p. 146}
^{“If we didn’t suffer, would we even understand how much we needed God?” p. 152}
^{“Even her voice was broken.” p. 158}
^{“His eyes searching as though he were trying to discover her secrets.” p. 209}
^{“He was in pain but wouldn’t admit it.” p. 255}
^{“I will miss you every day of my life, Katie. But I’m not sad that we met again.” p. 257}
^{“So, I think God was protecting me and guiding me, even while I was intent on ignoring him.” p. 270}

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