Thing is, we’re humans. We’re tribal. More settled things are, the bigger your tribe is. All the people in your gang, or all the people in your country. All the ones on your planet. Then the churn comes, and the tribe gets small again.

- from Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time, we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.
- from Matched by Ally Condie

It turned out you could bear things just until there was hope of reprieval. In horror, he realized that this actually made things worse, for now he had hope for something better. And hope was a terrible thing because it crushed the necessity of bearing the worst. And once the necessity was gone, so was the steely ability to do so.

- from Very Rich by Polly Horvath

A beacon to him still, and he resented that, didn’t want it. Couldn’t help it.
- from Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

It sounds like a lullaby to me, like all the voices I've ever dreamed of loving me, like it was created, this voice, just for me.
- from Revolution by Deborah Wiles

When you come clean, when you tell the truth, you life a great weight off your shoulders. It’s not that you don’t ever do anything you shouldn’t do ever again, of course not. You’re human, and sometimes the vagaries of life are just too delicious to ignore. Sometimes you are impetuous. Sometimes you are impulsive. And sometimes that’s okay. Sometimes it’s not. It’s just that, when you know you’re caught and you’ve done something you shouldn’t have done, you own up to it.
- from Revolution by Deborah Wiles

...some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.
- from Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.
- from Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer