Waiting, By Carol Lynch Williams

Page 9: "Everyone's the same you know? Even when they say they're different, they aren't."

Page 131: "What are you looking at?"

Page 208: "Still alone, yes, but not really, because I have three..." Still recovering quote(s) :-(

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour, By Morgan Matson

Page 179: "And most of them are so busy looking at the horizon that they can't even see what's right in front of them."

Page 188: "Deep down, somewhere, I knew that it would be better in the long run, to face it."

Page 202: "...it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard."

Page 225: "--he actually seemed to really mean the things he said he felt."

Page 247: "But you can't let that stop you... I mean, if you have a gift for something, I think it's wrong not to work at it, just because it gets hard, or because you're scared."

Page 315: "...letting out everything I'd been holding tightly inside." "... that I'd been holding onto this when I didn't have to."

Page 318: "The feeling that I was about to do something without being sure of the outcome. The feeling of just jumping off something and hoping that the ground would be there when I landed."

Page 337: "So I think we have to be open to what happens... We can't know exactly what's coming." "What I wanted was some kind of guarantee, and he couldn't give that to me. Nobody could." "We can't know what's going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along. Right?" "The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them."

Second Chance Summer, By Morgan Malson

Page 62: "--the realization that just because you'd left something behind didn't mean that it had gone anywhere."

Page 157: "And maybe something good will come of it."

Page 165: "In that moment, I knew that things had changed."

Page 272: "...what I've been doing for years now--running away or quitting whenever things got hard. I'd just never had to deal with the reality that this came with a cost... I'd done my very best to avoid ever having to confront the consequences of my actions. But he was the living proof that leaving something or someone was never just free and easy."

Page 413: "It would be like pulling off a Band-Aid--painful at first, but in the end, better for everyone."

Page 454: "--supporting, encouraging, somehow giving me the confidence I needed to start." "And he was brave enough to admit that he was afraid."

Page 460: "Love isn't all we need--love is all there is." "It will be scary. But I know you can do it."