Young-adult-fiction Quotes by Laura Anderson Kurk

“With a damp palm, I turned the knob and cracked open the door. She was asleep in her freshly made bed. I…

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“Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.”

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“I could’ve gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered. “My brother died because someone was jealous.”

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“Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself. So, this was me,…

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“It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re…

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“What I know about you, Henry,” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on…

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“Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing…

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“Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, “Promise?” Well, that genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no stuffing…

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“Okay, news flash. Jealousy is not something I enjoy. I hadn’t felt it much before. But I’d also never been in love.…

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“His room was dark until he switched on his desk lamp. I sat on the floor next to his bed and watched…

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“Here was what I wanted to happen when I walked through the door after my first real date and my first ever…

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“I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt…

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“Thanet is having a moment,” I said, leaning forward so Quinn could see him. “What’s wrong, man?” Quinn said. “Were you not…

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“I couldn’t stop crying because it was so intimate, in that way I always thought being physical with him would feel. If…

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“We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our…

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“Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the…

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“I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to…

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“Here’s what I learned about life when we were going through that. We’re all human and mortal. We’re all going to suffer…

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“You’re kidding, right? The whole town will know where we are just by the idle on that thing.” He feigned a look…

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“My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way.…

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“The first thing I needed, possibly the only thing, was to kiss her and I did, for as long as I could.…

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“I’d never seen him bare-chested. For the first time, he seemed vulnerable to me. His smooth, tight skin wrapped around the long…

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“Quinn spoke their language—all mystery and inside jokes, scarred souls and statement shirts. It was a beautiful moment for him—in his element…

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“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room,…

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“I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had…

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“My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the…

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“But Quinn held the fuzzy handcuffs in his hands, looking them over closely, and he smiled. “Oh, hey, did you want to…

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“I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough…

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“Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don’t even know we’re making, they’re so dull or routine or automatic.…

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“Then let me be your mercy,” he said. “I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but…

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“I get that. For you, it’s more than following a bunch of rules—no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night…

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“Wait,” Quinn said. “There’s one more thing.” I turned around and raised an eyebrow. His eyes were wary and he lacked his…

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“I needed out. The Jeep wasn’t fast enough. I shut it down, grabbed the keys and started running like a bear was…

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“Hold still, Meg, you’re dripping blood on my car seats.” I reached behind the passenger seat of Tennyson’s car looking for the…

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“For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like…

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“We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she…

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“Is there one in particular, Tennyson?” Henry said, ducking out from under her arm. “I could arrange a meeting.” “Yeah, the one…

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“Sometimes, in the stillness of my room, my mom’s voice came to me, repeating things she’d said for months. Like, “My skin…

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“He smiled and squinted at me again, tilting his head up and to the right as he stared. “Maybe what I’m attracted…

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“You look incredible, Kavanagh,” Quinn whispered close to my ear. “Are you trying to kill me?” “Ssshhh,” I hissed. “They’re going to…

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