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“Your Doppelgänger will regurgitate on your soul!”

The Boy Who Lost his Face - Louis Sachar

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

“Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.”

Cut - Patricia McCormick

“Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.”

A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck

“There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.”

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

“I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.”

Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling

“The only evil is that I don't mind that it happened.”

The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney

“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”

Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

“Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.”

Dangerously Alice Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“You are not in Disneyland,” he said. “The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them befo

Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers

“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous

“The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.”

Killing Mr. Griffin - Lois Duncan

He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he’s thinking that it doesn’t matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have crie

My Brother Sam is Dead - James Lincoln Collier

“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”

Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler

“He knew that we take what the universe gives us, and we either get the most out of it or we don’t, but in the end we all go out the same way.”

Whale Talk - Chris Crutcher

“Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!”

Gossip Girl Cecily von Ziegesar

“He saw the irresistible allure of high school sports, but he also saw an inevitable danger in adults’ living vicariously through their young. And he knew of no candle that burned out more quickly than that of the high school athlete.”

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream - H.G. Bissinger

“And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin.”

Harris and Me - Gary Paulsen

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

The Giver - Lois Lowry

“Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands”

Forever - Judy Blume

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

"They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too"

The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier