My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

★★★★

"I'm lonely.  Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent?  I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one.  My hair has it's own zip code.  Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS.  You don't love someone because they're perfect.  You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen

★★★

"Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds."

The Host by Stephanie Meyer

★★★

"Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without and equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale."