The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

★★★★

"Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had."

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

★★★

"...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit."

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

★★★★

"No relationship is perfect, ever.  There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences.  And that's they key.  It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece.  Love can make up for a lot.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

★★★★★

"He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face."

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

★★★★

"As she left my room, I knew I should shut up.  But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyways?  Well, I had that."