Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver

1) "Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. 

But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."

2) I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go

3) Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.

4) I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

5) That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning

6) That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge

Different Hearts, Same Heartbreak - Kate Dillen

Your heart’s broken but your whole body hurts. Then you get into bed at night, thankful to be back in a safe haven under the covers where you can cry alone and not be judged for being so weak to another human being, when all of our lives we are taught to be independent. And after a silent moment in the dark, you swear that your heart is completely crushed and it just can’t hurt anymore, so you fall asleep praying to God that you don’t dream of them for another night in a row. Then you wake up the next morning with, somehow, a whole heart again but like clockwork, the cycle starts over and the pieces begin to fall.

House Rules - Jodi Picoult

1. To Tim, Kyle, Jake, and Sammy. If you four were all I had to call my own, I'd be the richest woman on the planet.
2. My mom. We don't get to pick our parents, but if we did, I still would have chosen her.
3. Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
4. "Here's what I miss, Jacob. I miss the fact that I won't get to ever hear his voice again. And that I can't talk to him anymore"
   
   
   This wasn't really true. We had Grandpa's voice immortalized on old family videos that sometimes I liked to watch when I couldn't sleep at night. And it wasn't that she couldn't talk to him that was hard for her to accept; it was that he could no longer talk back.
5. Madness is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result.

Between The Lines - Jodi Picoult

1. Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees.
2. This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.
3. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

For One More Day - Mitch Albom

1. When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
   
   
2. Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
   
   
3. But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

Lone Wolf - Jodi Picoult

1. It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.
   
2. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.
   
3. Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.