Bloom, By Elizabeth Scott

Page 3: "I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be."

Page 9: "He told me that he really wanted to live right, and that it was hard, but he thought it was worth it."

Page 62: "...but that's not how life works. There are some things that can't be fixed."

Page 91: " 'I'm fine.' she says, and the way she says it chills me because i know all to well what it can mean. What it actually does mean."

Page 113: "I was just so freaked out that I thought I'd use up every single bit of worry last night, when I didn't fall asleep till after three."

Page 136: "It's just you have to--I don't know. Let go of being scared or something. Just be who you are."

Page 173: "I think what really matters is what you [I] think."

Page 181: "I am not strong or brave or anything like I should be. I am just me."

Page 199: "You'd think something would be different but nothing ever is. Everyone has their own little groups, and everything is all about who's doing what and who they're...with,... it all seems so pointless." "...part of a group but not part of it at all."

Page 218: "But now you're more--I don't know. More here. More like who you are."

Page 219: "I was worrying myself. I was afraid to be me."

Page 220: "I'm not perfect,... Not even close. Nobody is. If we were really in love with each other things wouldn't be perfect. They couldn't because nothing real is perfect."

Someday, Someday, Maybe, By Lauren Graham

Page 19:"I keep trying different looks, but I'm not sure what 'me' wears yet."

Page 25: "I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me."

Page 26: "I read somewhere that positive thinking is very powerful and you should train your mind to think about happy things more often."

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Incredibly Alice, By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Page 2: "Was I afraid to compete, or was I just genuinely not interested?"

Page 6: "'This is a make-each-moment-count time, everybody, because who knows where we'll be a year from now?'" "And I wondered why, just as in physics, for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction; for every new thing I looked forward to after high school, there seemed to be some opposite feeling I could hardly describe..."

Page 24: "There ought to be a recess. A time-out. Some plateau you could count on where absolutely nothing happened, good or bad, and you could catch your breath. When did that happen? After your married? Had your children? Retired? Never?"

Page 28: "It always amazes me how some of the most beautiful girls don't even know they're gorgeous enough."

Page 32: "I want a guy who loves all of me, not just a part. 'It's a package deal'..."

Page 37: "...I'd feel I'd be letting them down. I just... what if I'm saying no because I'm afraid I'll fail?...And how do I know if I might be refusing for the wrong reasons?"

Page 38: "I keep telling myself that if I say no, I'm closing a door...and I will have lost the chance..., to have that honor."

Page 40: "You guys are good at hiding feelings from each other."

Page 41: "...It's a lot less scary when you recognize what you're feeling instead of trying to hide it from yourself." "Remind yourself of the things you've faced in the past and how you managed to get through them." "'I guess you sort of have to take a deep breath and tell yourself to get over it...' 'No. Not get over it. Get through it. Go into it staying up front with yourself and remind yourself of all the ways you have of coping.'"

Page 44: "Of I'm missing something. But I've never Taj Mahal either. I never played the violin. I never wrote a novel or learned to fly or met a president...I think, 'we're all incomplete in some way.' I don't know anyone who has done everything she wanted to do in life."

Page 65: "But sometimes we find out we're a lot braver than we think."

Page 71: "Just do it! I told myself. Get up there and take a chance...I was doing this for me. I'd made a decision, and right or wrong, it was mine."

Page 98: "If you want to meet a guy who shares your interests, get involved in things you love."

Page 127: " 'Life is what happens when you're planning something else.' "

Page 140: "You open your mind to the world, Alice. That's what makes you you."

Page 242: "The secret is to make a list before you turn in all you have to do the next day so you won't forget something. Then tell yourself that those things are off-limits once you get int bed. You'll deal with them tomorrow."

Page 144: " 'What if I get so nervous that I throw up?'....'That's what custodians are for, Alice.' "

Page 190: "That's me--always jumping ahead. Planning my life weeks, months, years ahead instead of savoring each minute of every day."

Page 200:...--about how you can be curious and intellectual and all the rest right where you are at the moment. You didn't have to go to someplace big."

Page 202: "And it's okay to feel sad along with happy, loss along with gain, regret along with excitement. It's part of the process. Expected, in fact."

Page 204: "How could you ever try anything new if you had to be good at it first?"

Page 205: "But maybe we make time for the things that we like best."

Page 220: "I just get annoyed when people aren't honest with me"

Page 235: "If only the here and now could last forever..."

Page 250: "I had a checklist of things I needed to complete for every class before finals, and I set myself on automatic."

Page 252: "You want [him] to come back to you because he wants to, not because he said he would."

Page 277: "She thanked our parents for all they had done for us and said that graduation was a fork in the road in many ways, but we would be choosing the best parts of our parents to take along with us on life's journey, leaving the rest behind,...And it was this fork in the road, this choosing, these choices, that would, hopefully, make the world a better place."

The Moon and More, By Sarah Dessen

Page 86: "But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you."

Page 131: "Hearing this, I felt a strange mix of annoyance and shame. Like when you hear something you don't want to be true, but have a feeling probably is."

Page 143: "And like most times I found myself with hard choices, I just wished there was something clear and easy, right in between."

Page 147: "It's funny the things you remember."

Page 175: "As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere."

Page 180: "'...But you take the bad to get to the great. That's just how it works. Right?'"

Page 192: "'Demarcation?'...'It means a clear separation between two things... A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.'"

Page 218: "...there was a comfort in there being no question, no room for doubt."

Page 232: "In between ahd high above, I did all I could to soak up the stillness while it lasted."

Page 237: "'It's John Wayne.'Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.'"

Page 238: "I don't know you, I thought. And yet I do. It was the weirdest feeling."

Page 244: "'Well,...someone's gotta be first to buck the trend, right?'"

Page 254: "There are just moments you look up from any once place and realize, suddenly, you have no idea how you got there."

Page 265: "It struck at something deep and primal in me, flipping a switch I couldn't reach no matter how I contorted myself."

Page 282: "It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well."

Page 292: "'You're special, Emaline. You're not just any other girl.'" "All this time, I'd seen it from the other side, as a way of focusing on all the things I wasn't. But to him, to be different was the better choice, even ideal. Yet again, he was giving me another view, and I liked how I looked from here."

Page 306: "Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again."

Page 316: "And right then, while I still could, it was exactly where I wanted to be."

Page 326: "we were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds--was really all about."

Page 328: "'...Just a way of giving my older stuff another chance. I mean, an opportunity to do things differently, with the benefit of hindsight? That's a hard thing to turn down.'"

Page 329: "'I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. They replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it.'" "'Just because you don't get a chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.'"

Page 337: "'I'm driven. I don't settle. If I see something better within reach, I go for it...Risk is part of ambition...'"

Page 345: "'...The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you. If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.'"

Page 352: "'Disappointment, is part of life. Just like change.'"

Page 353: "'But from there, I can go anywhere. It's supposed to be a start, not a finish.'" "'You have no idea how one bad choice, one stupid mistake, can change everything for you. And once it's done,  believe me: it's done. But the sick part is, you'll still spend your whole life trying to fix it.'"

Page 356: "Worse, I had no idea where to go, or anyone who could understand."

Page 381: "Then again, I kind of admire his ability to go for what he wanted. I agonized and worried before making the safest movie; Theo saw his opportunity and took it..."

Page 410: "A reminder that not everyone is what they seem right at first glance."

Page 435: "The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns."