Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

Isn't it amazing how life is one thing, and then, in an instant, it becomes something else?

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

I wasn't totally immune to the charms of the opposite sex, but I wasn't one of those romantic, swoony girls who had pink fluffy daydreams about falling in love.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

There was something special about family by choice. It wasn't blood that held us all together. It was loyalty. Love.

—Cambria Hebert in #Junkie

Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be… just because you're you.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.

—Teresa Lo in Realities

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

—Kahlil Gibran

Real love is selfless.

—Yvonne Woon in Dead Beautiful