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“Skyscrapers tower above me, lifeless, iron giants stretching for the sky, reaching toward something more. And I’m reaching, too.”

Desire Longing Hunger Reaching Need Desperation

Book:Every Bright and Broken Thing

Source: Every Bright and Broken Thing

“The lies are so much a part of me now that, sometimes, I think they’re more real than the truth.”

Truth Honesty Lies

Book:Every Bright and Broken Thing

Source: Every Bright and Broken Thing

“We’re all broken,” she says. “You have to stop treating yourself like a special case. You may be broken in different places, but it’s damage all the same.”

Pain Suffering Grief Healing Sadness Sorrow Addiction Damage Broken Heart Brokenness

Book:Every Bright and Broken Thing

Source: Every Bright and Broken Thing

“I am a foreigner in this place right now. Not just this empty house – a house that once held such joy and laughter, a house marked by family and faith. But this world too. It’s like I’m a refugee, always running, running, running. And every time I arrive somewhere, hoping for sanctuary, I’m met with rejection.”

Grief Loneliness Sad Depression Rejection Relatable

Book:Every Bright and Broken Thing

Source: Every Bright and Broken Thing

“Maybe my heart is the moon and hers is the sun and everything else is gravity.”

Love Romance Stars Sun Moon Young Adult Contemporary Gravity Teen Fiction

Book:Love and the Sea and Everything in Between

Source: Love and the Sea and Everything in Between

“And now, we are above it all. Just me and her and the stars. The world is at our feet.”

Love Romance Stars Fiction Young Adult Contemporary Romance

Book:Love and the Sea and Everything in Between

Source: Love and the Sea and Everything in Between

“Like a picture out of focus, I’m starting to think that I don’t even know who I am anymore. And that feeling – like being sucked out into the vacuum of space without a suit – is the most terrifying of all.”

Space Who I Am Feeling Astronaut Who Am I

Book:Every Bright and Broken Thing

Source: Every Bright and Broken Thing