“Everything was heightened the way it always is when summer is slipping away to fall, and you're younger than eighteen, and all you can do is suck your cherry Icee and let the chlorine sting your nose, all the way up into the pockets behind your eyes, and snap your towel at the pretty girl with the sunburn, and hope to do it all again come June.” - Emily M. Danforth
“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.” - Leigh Bardugo
"Then maybe I should have said it to you sooner--you needn't hide around us. I'm sorry you ever felt you had to. And that the world makes you feel as though you have to.” - Mackenzi Lee
"You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons. The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can`t get away from it. Not ever." - Nina LaCour
Auf Goodreads nehme ich seit ein paar Jahren jeweils an der Reading Challenge mit. Dort kann man sich ein bestimmtes Ziel setzen, was die Anzahl der gelesenen Bücher angeht. In den letzten Jahren war es meist mein Ziel, fünfzig Bücher zu lesen, letztes Jahr erhöhte ich diese Zahl auf sechzig. Für 2021 habe ich mir nun folgende Challenge gesetzt: dreissig Bücher. Ziemlich wenige im Vergleich zu vergangenen Jahren. Doch auch zu den Genres habe ich mir einige Gedanken gemacht.
"Sometimes I don`t know what to say, and it never feels like it`s okay to not know." - Sarah Gailey
Letztes Jahr um diese Zeit war das Internet voll mit Memes, die Vorfreude verbreiteten auf das kommende Jahr. 20/20 Vision. Die goldenen Zwanziger. All das ist bekanntlich nicht eingetroffen. Das Jahr war für viele Menschen eine Katastrophe, hat Pläne durchkreuzt und unsere Leben stark verändert. Heute will ich trotzdem zurückschauen auf das vergangene Jahr, das für mich eigentlich hervorragend begann.
“But belonging meant denying who he was. Living as something he wasn't had nearly torn him part from the inside out. But he also loved his family, and his community. It was bad enough being an outsider; what would happen if they just couldn't--or wouldn't--accept him for who he was?” - Aiden Thomas
“The palace underestimates the resourcefulness of women forced into a dark and dangerous place.” - Kalynn Bayron
