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."

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

★★★★★

"Maybe I'm dreaming you.  Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other."

"Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life."

"There is only one page left to write on.  I will fill it with words of only one syllable.  I love.  I have loved.  I will love."

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

★★★★

" 'That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young.  And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.'  They sat for a while longer, and then parted, for it was late, and they were old and anxious."

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiComillo

★★★★

"Stories are light.  Light is precious in a world so dark.  Begin at the beginning.  Tell Gregory a story.  Make some light."

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

★★★★

"We all have such stories.  It is a brutal arithmetic.  But I - I am alive.  You are alive.  As long as we breathe, we can see and hear.  As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us."

"You are a name, not a number.  Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here."