People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel sad for no reason at all.

About Libba Bray

Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, The Diviners series, and Under the Same Stars.

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He loved her. Was in love with her. Had always loved her. And it seemed that she loved him, too. It was funny how the world could change on a dime like that. One minute, you were some poor chump pining after a girl you thought didn't feel the same way about you, and the next, you were lying together, arms entwined, chest to chest, so close you could feel her heartbeat under her soft skin. You were looking into her eyes and seeing your whole future written there.

—Libba Bray in Before the Devil Breaks You

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

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When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he's come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he's been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn't utter a word, but his smile says everything: I've missed you.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

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You can never know about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part in your own destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

—Libba Bray in Going Bovine

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You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

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It was a world full of feelings that I didn't have words for yet.

—Ava Dellaira in Love Letters to the Dead

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In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

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Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.

—Lindsey Kelk in I Heart New York

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Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn't necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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20 Jan 2015 Added