"I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating." - Pudge in Looking for Alaska, John Green
"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail." - Pudge in Looking for Alaska, John Green
"Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction." - Death in The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
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Hurricane
Teen FictionWhen you live in a small town of only sixteen-thousand, it is usual for people to be interested when a new family move into town; but not as interested as they were about the Hamptons. It wasn’t the energetic father or the mousy mother or the sporty...
