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21 " You can't help who you fall in love with. "
― Lili Wilkinson , The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend
22 " Do you hear me, mountain?' She yelled into the storm. I'm not giving in. I crossed an ocean to get here. I climbed this mountain. I will not let her die. "
― Lili Wilkinson , Scatterheart
23 " Correct. That’s the Sucker Effect. You do something, while making the audience think you did something else. So they’re all busy feeling self-congratulatory that they figured it out, and it gives you all this awesome wriggle room to keep tricking them. "
― Lili Wilkinson , The Zigzag Effect
24 " I don't believe in telling people what they should do, so I'll tell you what you shouldn't do instead... young people can't write a book because they don't have enough life experience, teachers and parents please cover your ears for a second, that it BULLSHIT! Anyone can write a book if they have an idea. "
― Lili Wilkinson
25 " She was going to burst, or fall apart. Something. She couldn't keep feeling like this. The emptiness inside her was too big; it would swallow her whole. "
26 " Pink was for girls.Girly girls who wore flavored lip gloss and read magazines and talked on the phone lying on their perfect, lacy bedspreads with their feet in the air. Girls who spent six months looking for the perfect dress to wear to the school formal.Girls who liked boys. "
― Lili Wilkinson , Pink
27 " A single pink poppy lay on the footpath, its roots still crusted with earth. I picked it up and it drooped forlornly in my hands. "
― Lili Wilkinson , Green Valentine
28 " That's what I need to figure out. I need to figure out who I am. What I want. "
29 " Your career doesn't define you "
30 " The world doesn't learn and grow and change with the seasons. It comes from hard work. From kindness and courage and sheer stubborn persistence. "
― Lili Wilkinson , After the Lights Go Out
31 " One magpie is bad luck,' said Molly. 'One for sorrow, two for mirth. Three for a wedding, four for a birth. Five for rich, six for poor. Seven for a witch, I can tell you no more. "
32 " Ripples of sunset dance towards our feet, swirling into the colours from the graffiti, reflected on brown water. "
― Lili Wilkinson , Oona Underground: A #LoveOzYA Short Story
33 " Would you like to join me for a Meeting of Like Minds with Possible Romantic Consequences? "
34 " Fox's hand was a life raft, the only thing stopping me from sinking further into empty blackness. "
― Lili Wilkinson , The Boundless Sublime
35 " Shutting your heart away and letting bitterness and emptiness rule. Pretending that decay is to be celebrated, and ignoring everything that really matters. Don't you feel yourself disintegrating when you're around them? Feel as if you're getting sucked into their swamp of narcissism and hatred? "
36 " Our blood stains the red dirt under my feet, and the thought of leaving it behind makes my heart ache. "
37 " I had to get out, back out into the darkness, the soft velvety night where adventures could be had and things could grow. "