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1 " Just listen, okay?" He grabs my shoulders before I can move past him, and I know, I know that something huge is happening, the kind of thing that takes worlds apart and remakes them. Hurricanes and tornadoes and boys with blue eyes. "
― Lauren Oliver , Broken Things
2 " In books, secret worlds are accessible by doors or keys or other physical objects. But Lovelorn was not such a world, and appeared at whim and only when it felt like it, with a subtle change like the slow shifting of afternoon to evening. "
3 " Words mean different things to different people, at different times, in different places. "
4 " That’s the thing about hearts. They don’t get put back together, not really. They just get patched. But the damage is still there. "
5 " The problem with fairy tales isn't that they don't exist. It's that they do exist, but only for some people. "
6 " That's the problem with lies. They aren't solid. They melt, and seep, and leak into the truth. And sooner or later, everything's just a muddle. "
7 " Sorry is one of the worst words of all: it hardly ever means what you want it to" -Mia "
8 " She didn’t realize how much depends on what you’re remembered for. Sometimes, it’s so much better to be forgotten. "
9 " It's much better this way," he said. "Change is just another word for disappointment, you know. "
10 " It is a strange phrase, ‘falling in love,’” said one of the princesses in the tower. Tears stood out on her cheeks, and even these were pretty, reflecting the blue sky above her. “It sounds like something you do accidentally, by yourself. But isn’t someone else always to blame? They should call it strangling in love. Walloped in love. Knocked-out-of-nowhere in love. "
11 " The biggest problem with lies? They breed." -Brynn "
12 " That's what heartbreak feels like: a little death" -Brynn "
13 " Words are like a virus - there's no telling what kind of damage they'll do once they're out" -Mia "
14 " Decaf. The single worst word in the English language. "
15 " Before we were the Monsters of Brickhouse Lane—before everyone from Connecticut to California knew us by that tagline, and blogs ran pictures of our faces, and searching our names led to sites that crashed from all the traffic—we were just girls, and there were only two of us. "
16 " He's furious. And something else - another expression is working beneath the anger, a look of hurt so deep it makes me want to curl up and die. It's crazy how someone else's pain can do that, just take the legs out from under you" -Mia "
17 " The little scuzzbucket should just marry his right hand and be done with it. "
18 " When you can’t count on anything else, you can count on the news to make you sick. "
19 " That's the thing about hearts. They don't get put back together, not really. They just get patched. But the damage is still there. "
20 " Maybe we were always broken. Maybe I was always a liar, and Mia was always weak. Maybe what happened to Summer didn’t turn us but only revealed what was already there. "
