“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason. And then you shot across my sky like […]
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New Moon
“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in […]
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Twilight
“I’d never given much thought to how I would die—though I’d had reason enough in the last few months—but even if I had, I would not have imagined […]
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Thirteen Reasons Why
“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just […]
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could […]
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Fangirl
“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you.” Part One: Freshman Year Cath Avery, a shy and introverted college freshman, […]
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Eleanor & Park
“He’d stopped trying to bring her back.” Chapter 1 Eleanor Douglas, a red-haired, plus-size teenager with a quirky fashion sense, starts at a new high school in Omaha, […]
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Paper Towns
“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.” Part One: The Strings The […]
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Looking for Alaska
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” — John Green, Looking for Alaska Before Miles “Pudge” Halter leaves his Florida home to attend […]
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The Fault in Our Stars
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.” – The Fault in Our Stars Chapters 1-5 Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old with terminal thyroid cancer, is forced by her […]