"We're still friends. I just can't trust her or tell her anything important." - Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer
"And so my days drifted by, a joyous mix of sun worship, escaping from lessons, and the heavy leaden smell of paint." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra
"We will see each other soon. Our lives are being torn apart now, but we will find a way back to each other, just as water finds its way around rocks." - Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
"But, I don't know, maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you're truly searching for. Maybe you spend your whole life to figure out a small part of it." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"My dreams were like the finest, sweetest honey. And I was like a honeybee, flying in search of more." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"...we knew we were lucky to live there. Or we thought we knew anyway; you can never know how lucky you are to have something until it's taken away." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra
"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"The sun shone in their eyes, half blinding them and turning their world to liquid gold." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust