The concept of perfection exists only so that we have something to strive toward: Impossibility is built into it which is why we call it perfect instead of extremely good.
– Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints, page 139
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Hardcover, 311 pages
Published October 10th 2017 by Scholastic Press
Perhaps without trees or cities to dampen the enormity of the feelings, they spread out hugely.
– Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints, page 88
Version:
Hardcover, 311 pages
Published October 10th 2017 by Scholastic Press
She was eighteen years old, a hippie Madonna with dark hair parted evenly on either side of her face, a nose shaped like a J, and a small, enigmatic mouth that men would probably describe as a rosebud but Beatriz would describe as “my mouth.”
– Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints, page 7
Version:
Hardcover, 311 pages
Published October 10th 2017 by Scholastic Press
Also, we decided that people who can afford giant bags of cocaine should really be embarrassed at leaving anything less than a cool hundy in the tip jar.
– Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can, page 109
Version:
Hardcover, 209 pages
Published November 29th 2016 by Ballantine Books
But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine.
– Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can, page 101
Version:
Hardcover, 209 pages
Published November 29th 2016 by Ballantine Books
In this book, I will also see into the future and report my findings to you and to select heads of state. These findings will be lies, as I cannot actually see into the future, but who can stop me saying whatever I want here? It’s my book! I’m drunk with power!
– Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can, page 5
Version:
Hardcover, 209 pages
Published November 29th 2016 by Ballantine Books
I’m not saying that it’s stupid to feel sad, just that it would be impossible to let everything get to you and still get some sleep at night.
– Nina LaCour, Hold Still, page 83
Version:
Paperback, 272 pages
Published October 5th 2010 by Speak
I almost expect to see the shoe box rising and falling with the journal’s breath.
– Nina LaCour, Hold Still, page 41
Version:
Paperback, 272 pages
Published October 5th 2010 by Speak
I know it makes me seem crazy, I know it won’t make anything change, but it’s better than crying, it’s better than screaming, it’s better than listening to what they’re telling me.
– Nina LaCour, Hold Still, page 5
Version:
Paperback, 272 pages
Published October 5th 2010 by Speak
– Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle (Trials of Apollo, book 1)
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