books i read in 2020

wolfsong - t.j. klune
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “maybe not, but i would respect it. because ox is my best friend above all else, and i would have him any way i could.”

ravensong - t.j. klune
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “if words are left unsaid, they will haunt you for the rest of your days.”

heartsong - t.j. klune
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “i can’t wait to meet you. but i hope you understand that i’ll be fine with waiting on that meeting for a time. because when he gives you his heart, it will no longer be mine to hold. and i want to hold on to it for as long as i’m able.”

the fever king - victoria lee
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “dara, who claimed he hated everything but secretly dreamed of counting the stars.”

the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue - mackenzi lee
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “you might be the only person left on earth who thinks me decent.” “then everyone else doesn’t know you.”

infinity son - adam silvera
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “we know better than anyone that loved ones don’t always come home.”

vicious - v.e. schwab
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”

serpent & dove - shelby mahurin
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “you knew i was a snake when you picked me up.”

one of us is lying - 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.”

the inexplicable logic of my life - benjamin alire sáenz
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “you saved my life, if only for a little while.”

ninth house - leigh bardugo
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “he needed her and she needed him. that was how most disasters began.”

the gravity of us - phil stamper
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “if you want to kiss me, kiss me because you like me. not because you think it’ll make me happy.”

renegades - marissa meyer
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “one cannot be brave who has no fear.”

archenemies - marissa meyer
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “no matter how long the list of things that attracted him to nova had become, he still found her feelings toward him to be a mystery, with an annoying shortage of evidence to support the theory that maybe, she sort of liked him too.

supernova - marissa meyer
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “some people were always meant to be heroes. just like some people were always meant to be villains.”

crier’s war - nina varela
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “if a spider weaves her web to catch flies and catches a butterfly instead, what does the spider do? she eats the butterfly.”

little women - louisa may alcott
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “don’t try to make me grow up before my time.”

clockwork angel - cassandra clare
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “it’s all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. as long as they deserve it.”

clockwork prince - cassandra clare
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “oh, but i do want it. more than anything in the world. i always have.”

clockwork princess - cassandra clare
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “if there is a life after this one, let me meet you in it, james carstairs.”

chain of gold - cassandra clare
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “matthew, who smelled of brandy and familiarity. matthew, who could be cruel but never to james.”

the electric heir - victoria lee
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “besides, he didn’t see me the way other people did. and that had been worth more to dara than anything else life had given him.”

lady midnight - cassandra clare
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “the stars will go out before i forget you, mark blackthorn.”

lord of shadow - cassandra clare
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “that is love, son of thorns. we welcome its cruelest blows and when we bleed from them, we whisper our thanks.”

queen of air and darkness - cassandra clare
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “some lights were never meant to burn for long.”

the lightning-struck heart -by t.j. klune
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “i wish i could find that one person made for me so that way i can show them why i was made for them.”

a destiny of dragons -by t.j. klune
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “because once upon a time, he told me that he looked upon the stars and wished for nothing more than me. and that’s not something i can ever let go.”

the consumption of magic -by t.j. klune
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— ”you told me once, back in a dragon’s keep, that you looked upon the stars and wished for nothing more than me. but what if wishing for me will only hurt more in the end?”

a wish upon the stars -by t.j. klune
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “i chose you, little one, because a world in which i could not see your face isn’t a world i’m ready to live in.”

we are okay - nina lacour
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “i used to cry over a story and then close the book, and it all would be over.”

a poised nuisance - iris rivers
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
— “they were together as one, joined by the cruelest of acts, permanently written in stone until the end of time.”

the poppy war - rf kuang
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “she was no victim of destiny. she was the last speerly, commander of the cike, and a sharman who called the gods to do her bidding. and she would call the gods to do such terrible things.”

the dragon republic - rf kuang
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “fire and water looked so lovely together. it was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”

the infinite noise - lauren shippen
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “isn’t everyone always lying when they say they’re fine?”

a little life - hanya yanagihara
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “someday, he thought, somehow, he would find a way to tell some one, one person. and then he had, someone he had trusted, and that person had died, and he didn’t have the fortitude to tell his story ever again.”

king of scars - leigh bardugo
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “my ruthless zoya, i’ll load the gun myself.”

caraval - stephanie garber
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “dreams that come true can be beautiful, but they can also turn into nightmares when people won’t wake up.”

legendary - stephanie garber
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “if you’re the hero, what does that make me?”

finale - stephanie garber
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “fear was a poison that people mistook as protection.”

felix ever after - kacen callender
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “you don’t get to use my pain to make your point.”

the fever king - victoria lee (rr)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “dara had a way of making even the mundane extraordinary.”

the electric heir - victoria lee (rr)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “upon reflection, dara had loved noam since the moment they met.”

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “evelyn hugo just wants to go home. it’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover, and her best friend, and her mother. tell them evelyn hugo says good-bye.”

the lightning thief - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “i have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. it is never anything but tragic.”

the sea of monsters - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “does truth have a moral?”

the titan’s curse - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “stars, she whispered. i can see the stars again, my lady.”

the battle of the labyrinth - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “be careful of love. it’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

the last olympian - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “the world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”

the lost hero - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “you must forge your own path for it to mean anything.”

the son of neptune - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “if we both die tonight, well, i’m glad i met you.”

the mark of athena - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “after all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together.“

the house of hades - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
— “will you hide among the dead, as you always do?”

the blood of olympus - rick riordan
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— “no one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”

breaking legacies - zoe reed
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
— “and that look, that freedom and bliss, that was what i’d given my life for. it was what i’d build the rest of my life around, because i couldn’t imagine i’d ever feel as content as when ava looked like that.”