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“Darian murdered them in cold blood. That’s a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable.”

Book:Awakening

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Awakening

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“Without the Dreamscape, we can’t sleep. My parents remind me all the time about stories their parents told them, of how things were in the Manic Age. The time before our bodies were upgraded to sync with the amazing invention called the Dreamscape. Thirty-eight years ago, people actually had to fall asleep on their own and, sometimes, they would toss and turn for hours. My grandparents said when sleep, in its mercy, did come, it often brought with it horrible images I’ve heard people used to call nightmares.”

Romance Ya Dystopian Yalit

Book:Awakening

Source: Awakening

“Even if I did feel bad for Darian, I wouldn’t admit it. Siding with anyone who violates The Protectorate would make me Noncompliant. That would make me almost as corrupt as him. To side with those who violate The Protectorate is strictly forbidden and punishable by a week in the Terrorscape.”

Romance Ya Dystopian Yalit

Book:Awakening

Source: Awakening

“The aunts’ conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.”

Ya Between

Book:The House of Aunts

Source: The House of Aunts

“Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?”

Young Adult Ya Bullying

Book:Life Unaware

Source: Life Unaware

“If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn’t know what happened to people once they were unfixable. I only hoped I never had to find out.”

Young Adult Ya Bullying

Book:Life Unaware

Source: Life Unaware

“You are on my side," she says. "What side is that?" I ask. "The winning side," she says, and smiles. "The team of the artists." "Who are we playing?" "The barbarians," she says. "We are always playing them.”

Art Ya Artists Ya Contemporary

Book:Paper Covers Rock

Source: Paper Covers Rock

“You can stand in the middle of a street and let the drops fall on you and feel refreshed. It's like God's little sprinkler.”

Ya Marvelous Marvel Travis Thrasher The Books Of Marvella

Book:Marvelous

Source: Marvelous

“I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.”

Ya Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Fantasy Ya Fantasy Series Heroine Quote Megan

Book:Love at First Plight

Source: Love at First Plight

“The demon is crouched in the corner, between the Cheetos and the onion dip. It’s a small one, only about four feet tall: a low-level creeper. I flick my gaze over the spot like I don’t see it and open the cooler door to get a Coke.”

Source: Darkness Brutal

“It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference. But it was a start—and that was all that mattered.”

Young Adult Ya Bullying

Book:Life Unaware

Source: Life Unaware

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