"All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly." 
- Sabaa Tahir

"I've made books my life because they let me esacpe this world of cruelty and savagery." 
- Jeff Zentner

"Words were different when they lived inside you." 
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz 

"I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way." 
- Leigh Bardugo 

"But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties." 
- Marie Lu 

"There was no force in any world that could keep her contained." 
- Sarah J. Maas 

"Sometimes your heart is the only thing worth listening to." 
- Marissa Meyer

"She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out." 
- Stephanie Garber