Julia B.

“And then an event did occur, to Emily, of considerable importance. She suddenly realized who she was.ﾠ There is little reason that one can see why it should not have happened to her five years earlier, or even five later; and none, why it should have come that particular afternoon.ﾠ”
― Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

“Yes,” Adam had whispered, and Opal had felt a rush of love for him. She loved him the best when he was very sad or very serious or very happy. Something about his voice breaking filled her with feeling, and something about the vacancy of his expression when he was thinking hard felt like she was looking at a dream with nothing bad in it, and something about when Ronan made him laugh so hard that he couldn’t stop made her love him so hard that she felt sad because one day he would get old and die because that was what things with animalness did.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Opal

“Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today.”
― Lori Lansens, Rush Home Road

“Why. Do. People. Do. Stupid. Things."

"Because we're stupid," she said.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair