2018 book thread (aka a list of everything I read this year, whether it’s a reread or first time!)

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The Declaration by Gemma Malley

‘What does time matter when every moment is stolen anyway?’
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

“God, a lot happened since you lost your mind. Is that rude to say?”
“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
The Raven Cycle Book 1: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

“It means I never get to be my own person. If I let you cover for me, then I’m yours. I’m his now, and then I’ll be yours.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

‘Sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me.’
Beware the Past by Joy Ellis

‘The face that had stared deliberately at the camera made his flesh crawl. The half-smile was insidious, purposely meant to taunt. It said, “I know everything there is to know about you, and guess what? You still know fuck all about me.”’
13 Dates by Matt Dunn

‘“Sorry if I was a little grumpy earlier,” she says, propping herself up against the headboard. “It’s just... every day needs to count. You know?”’
Bellamy and the Brute by Alicia Michaels

‘“Illness and disability make people uncomfortable. They don’t want to look straight at it, because it reminds them of how fragile they are, too.”’
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I was mostly invisible. I think I liked it that way. And then Dante came along.”
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

“Jace. Is he really a terrible liar?”
“He’s not a liar at all. Not about important things. He’ll tell you horrible truths, but he won’t lie.”
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

‘Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.’
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

‘“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”’
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

‘“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters.”’
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

‘“Inanimate objects are harmless indeed... But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.”’
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

‘“The essay about how no man is an island. Everything you do touches others. Yet you never think about it. You behave as if you live on some sort of - of Will island, and none of your actions have any consequences. Yet they do.”’
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

‘Jean smiled at him, that smile that had always, even on Will’s blackest days, eased his mind. “I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale.”’
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

‘The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.’
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

‘I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realised how full of them the earth was.’
City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

‘“All stories are true,” said Isabelle. This had been a tenet of her beliefs since she was a child. All Shadowhunters believed it. There was no one religion, no one truth - and no myth lacked meaning.’
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

‘“Any other impossible feats you’d like us to accomplish?”’
Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more, a dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose”
Love Beyond Opposites by Molly E. Lee (ARC)

‘Sometime between our stolen moments and tonight, she’d become precious to me. Someone worth giving up everything for. And that was something I couldn’t afford.’
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

“Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

‘In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.’
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

‘I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin.’
King’s Cage by Victoria Aveyard

‘I live in a shrinking world where the only thing I can trust is Maven's obsession. Like the manacles, it is a shield and a slow, smothering death.’
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

‘Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.’
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

‘You have to admit: there’s something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you. A lot of people say they don’t care. Or they act like they don’t care. But I think most people care a lot. I know I do’
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

‘This is how we reveal ourselves: these tiny flashes of discomfort, the reactions we can’t hide.’
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

‘That computer is my rabbit hole; the internet is my wonderland. I am only allowed to fall into it when it doesn’t matter if I get lost.’
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

‘Looking up at the sky, she felt as if she were floating in space, completely untethered. She could not believe that anything was impossible.’
Queen Song by Victoria Aveyard

‘The diary ended unfinished, unseen by any who deserved to read it. Only Elara saw its pages, and the slow unraveling of the woman inside. She destroyed the book like she destroyed Coriane. Still she dreamed of nothing.’
The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

“It’s not the world that’s cruel, it’s the people in it.”
The Raven King by Nora Sakavic

“Coach, this line-up is insane.”
“Yup. Good luck.”
The King’s Men by Nora Sakavic

“You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs.”
“I'm not a hallucination,” Neil said, nonplussed.
“You are a pipe dream.”
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

“Mateo points out the dark nimbus clouds, and I’m straight wowed I get to live in this moment with someone who doesn’t deserve to die.”
Skating Through by Jennifer Cosgrove (ARC)

‘In the course of a few minutes, everything was back to normal except that he had spilled his biggest secret...’
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

‘I guess we're almost friends now, or as friendly as you can get when you're not one hundred percent sure the other person isn't framing you for murder.’
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

“I’d rather live on an adventure than die standing still.”
I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman

“It must be nice to just... be a person.”
“But we’re gods, Jimmy. What’s better than that?”
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

‘She wept for her hardheadedness, and for a world that couldn't just let her be both, a woman in love and a woman with a career, without flares of guilt and self-doubt seeping in and wreaking havoc.’
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

‘Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.’
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

‘It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.’
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

‘Boys will be boys, but girls are supposed to be careful: of our bodies, of our futures, of all the ways people judge us.’
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

‘Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?’
What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera (ARC)

‘The universe wouldn’t get us together for just one summer, right?’
Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

‘We must build bridges, conquer hate with love, and meet intolerance with a renewed commitment to education and open-mindedness. From many, we are one.’
Unconventional by Maggie Harcourt

‘Funny things, words. Big words, small words; words that are bigger on the inside and packed tight with feeling. They can make us fall in love, and they can break our hearts and we’re powerless against them.’
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

‘Kell tried to wrestle his features into their usual stem order, and lost. He couldn’t help it. The last time he’d felt this alive, someone was trying to kill him.’
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

‘Kell’s grip tightened, as if he thought she would disappear, but Lila wasn’t going anywhere. She could have walked away from almost anything, but she wouldn’t have walked away from this.’
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

“I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...’
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

“Give her hell from us, Peeves.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

“Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest.”
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

‘People need people. That’s that.’
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

‘Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone ... or at least, he would be gone from it.’
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be.”
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

‘I was transformed by those four steps. At the moment I stopped being an innocent rural teenager and started becoming someone else, a more complicated and capable person, a force to be reckoned with even ...’
The Dead of the Night by John Marsden

“The future is... I don’t know, what’s the future? It’s a blank sheet of paper and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held and the lines we draw aren’t the lines we wanted.”
The Third Day, the Frost by John Marsden

‘When the call for action came again, we answered it. Maybe we answered like robots, programmed to kill and destroy, but we answered.’
Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden

‘We’d gone too far to back out. Simple human bloody-mindedness, the feeling that you’re pathetic if you give up.’
Burning For Revenge by John Marsden

‘The next few minutes were madness: a wild sideshow ride where the winners got to live and the losers got to die.’
The Night is for Hunting by John Marsden

‘If someone had no stories, they wouldn’t be human, wouldn’t exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn’t be the person I am.’
The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden

‘Life is about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It’s about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off.’
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

‘We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with lacquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.’
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

‘Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.’
Geekerella by Ashley Poston

‘When we become those characters, pieces of ourselves light up like glow sticks in the night. They shine. We shine. Together.’
Warcross by Marie Lu

‘Death has a terrible habit of cutting straight through every careful line you’ve drawn between your present and your future.’
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