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."

Smile for the Camera, By Kelle James

Page 23: "...I won't remember the good-bye part anymore: I'll just remember the hello part." "Sometimes it's not that easy, though."

Page 126: "Some feelings are too good for words."

Page 268: "Sometimes when you do the right thing, people aren't going to be happy about it. But you have to do it anyway."

Page 277: "It's not the food. It's the company."

Page 304: "Avoiding pain isn't good enough. If it worked, I'd keep doing it. But it doesn't work. No matter how hard I try, it still finds me."

Page 305: "There is something better for me out there... And I'm going to find it."

Page 312: "For the first time in my life, I'm seeing myself through my own eyes."

Page 317: "Sometimes it's good to have someone to walk with."

Page 324: "When he sets his mind to something, he always gets it done."

Page 325: "He may not hear it in his ears, but he'll hear it in his heart."

Page 359: "Pain is weakness leaving the body."

Page 388: "When I need a hand, she offers both. When I feel left behind, she says life's not a straight line, it's a circle... When i'm weak, she gives me something to carry to prove that it's not true. When I forget who I am, she says she remembers... She's my best friend."

Page 390: "They were not going to save me. I had to save me." "They taught me to say enough is enough--and mean it."

Page 392: "Proving that there's more than one way to stand strong." "It wasn't always easy. It's not supposed to be." "... the things that start out the hardest are usually the things that end up being the most satisfying. It's all about earning it." "...--'cause doing things is what changes things." "I act like my life depends on it. Because it does."

The Expressologist, By Kristina Springer

Page 117: "If there is one thing she could use more of, it's confidence. Because everyone else can see what she doesn't see--she's much smarter, stronger, and more beautiful than she realizes."

Page 171: "When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences."

Page 174: "I'm so done with guys. Maybe I'll get a goldfish."

Page 180: "I'm different, stronger."

How to Save a Life, By Sara Zarr

Page 18: "No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure it in years and by the things that happen to you..."

A Walk to Remember, By Nicholas Sparks

Page 21: "She didn't care much about outward appearances, because she was always looking for things like 'inner beauty'."

Page 204: "What's your heart telling you to do?...Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it."

Page 205: "Time seemed to be slowing down and speeding up at exactly the same time."

Page 222: "she'd shown me that actions--not thoughts or intentions--were the way to judge others."

Page 226: "I am  not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others."

Page 234: "All I cared about was doing something my heart had told me was the right thing to do." "...with her patience and kindness she showed me what life is really all about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed."

Speechless, By Hannah Harrington

Page 47: "I made a promise to myself."

Page 64: "...It doesn't change who you are, or how much we love you. Nothing could change that." "We just want you to be happy. You know that, right?"

Page 65: "I don't know exactly what I am, but I'm more than that. I know that much."

Page 89: "I started this, and I'm going to finish it."

Page 90: "I have something to prove to myself. That I'm not who everyone thinks I am. That I can stick to this."

Page 110: "When she says something, she means exactly what she says."

Page 192: "It makes me feel in control."

Page 193: "..thinking about the big picture...I want my life to be more than this...I want to be better than this."

Page 195: "Maybe you don't have to say anything. Maybe just being there is enough."

Page 204: "The difference is that most of us want it to mean something."

Page 207: "I am trying to be a person who deserves to be looked at the way [he] is looking at me now, like I'm someone worth caring about, someone worth knowing. I want to prove that the risk he's taken in reaching out to me isn't for nothing."

Page 217: "I thought it was enough, and it is so far from enough. I can't change what I've done and what I haven't done, but I can change what I do now. I can actually do something. Stand for something." "I totally can do this. I can."

Page 219: "You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular girl in school,...and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it." "It means that even then, I knew right from wrong, knew what was really, truly important, knew what I could lose and still, I was willing to give it all up for justice."

Page 235: "It's a big world. There's always more to learn." "Perfection is overrated."

Page 239: "Maybe when it comes down to it, what we're interested in doesn't mean so much--it's who you are that ties people together."

Page 245: "But I'm trying not to hate them, even if it's what they deserve, even if no one would blame me for it. I don't want to live like that." "Hate is...it's too easy...Love. Love takes courage."

Page 252: "...but he looks like he's enjoying himself, and that's what really matters. Having fun."

Page 262: "The fact that they don't need a piece of paper for their relationship to mean something."

Page 264: "Not every chapter of my life is going to have a happy ending, but they all do need endings, regardless...so maybe it's time to make that happen."

Page 267: "But I can't let it control my life." "It is so easy. So easy to look in the mirror at all my imperfections and think of all the ways I fall short of someone [else]...To realize how much I've screwed up and to obsess over all of the terrible ways I've wronged so many people. But even though I know my flaws are many, and there are always ways I could be better, and I should never stop working for that--I also need to give myself a break...Because I'm a work in progress. Because nobody is perfect. At least acknowledge the mistakes I've made, and am making. At least I'm trying. That means something, doesn't it?"

Page 268: "And just because I have room for improvement doesn't mean I'm worthless, or that I have nothing offer to, like, the world." "...but sometimes love is easy, too. When you find it."