Olive always has bad luck—in her job, in her relationships, in, uh, everything. On the other side, her identical twin sister Ami is most likely the most fortunate person in the world. She met her fiancé in a scene straight out of a romantic comedy, and she was able to win enough online competitions to pay for her entire wedding (double gag). The worst part is that Olive must spend the day with Ethan, her sworn adversary who also happens to be the greatest man.
Before she can go back to her cozy, unlucky existence, Olive must through 24hrs of wedding misery. Olive and Ethan are the only ones unaffected when the whole wedding party contracts food sickness after consuming contaminated mussels. And right now, a free honeymoon in Hawaii is up for grabs.
Olive and Ethan decide to travel to paradise despite their animosity for one another because it will be a free vacation. Olive promises her future boss a small white lie, but when they cross paths, it risks growing much more. She and Ethan now have to act like a happily married couple, and her luck appears to be getting worse. But what’s strange is that she enjoys acting out scenarios. She actually feels somewhat fortunate.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.”
“knew he was a book lover, but to be the same kind of book lover I am? It makes my insides melt.”
“I am a homebody, through and through, and there’s nothing like being home.”
“love is exhausting.”
“Don’t threaten me with a good time”
A struggling marriage and the one forgotten pledge that might be able to salvage it are the subjects of Colleen Hoover’s masterful new book. Quinn and Graham’s flawless relationship is jeopardized by their shoddy marriage. They are currently being torn apart by the memories, errors, and secrets that have accumulated over the years. The one thing that might be able to save them may also be the thing that breaks their marriage beyond repair.
In the thought-provoking book All Your Perfects, a broken couple’s future depends on past promises. Can a tremendous love with a perfect beginning endure a lifetime between two imperfect people? is the heartrending question posed in this page-turner?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you only shine a light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
“What’s the secret to a perfect marriage?’ The old man leaned forward and looked at me very seriously. ‘Our marriage hasn’t been perfect. No marriage is perfect. There were times when she gave up on us. There were even more times when I gave up on us. The secret to our longevity is that we never gave up at the same time.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
“When you meet someone who is good for you, they won’t fill you with insecurities by focusing on your flaws. They’ll fill you with inspiration because they’ll focus on all the best parts of you.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
“And I promise . . . I swear . . . that if you choose to end things between us, I will love you more as you’re walking out the door than on the day you walked down the aisle. I hope you choose the road that will make you the happiest. Even if it’s not a choice I’ll love, I will still always love you. Whether I’m a part of your life or not. You deserve happiness more than anyone I know. I love you.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
“What did I miss while you were sleeping?”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
The heart’s history cannot be undone. Macy Sorensen is getting used to her ambitious but emotionally reserved routine: put in a lot of effort as a brand-new pediatrics resident; arrange her marriage to an older, well-off man; and hold her head down and heart hidden.
But when she crosses paths with Elliot Petropoulos, her one and only love, the meticulous bubble she had built starts to burst. Before he broke her heart the night he confessed his love for her, Elliot was once Macy’s entire world. He had evolved from being her gangly, bookish buddy to the man who helped her heart heal following the death of her mother.
The story of young Elliot and Macy, who spend weekends and leisurely summers together in a house outside of San Francisco reading books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their teething problems and triumphs, is told in alternating timelines between Then and Now. Prior to their unexpected reunion, they were unknown to one another as adults. Elliot will learn the truth behind Macy’s ten-year quiet, despite the pain of what happened that night so many years ago clouding their recollections. He will have to battle his own past and his own self to restore Macy’s trust in the potential of an all-consuming love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.”
“Don’t spoil her with toys; spoil her with books.”
“I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.”
“I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.”
“Well, you’re more, too. You’re my best everything.”
Bree Prescott hopes against hope that the tranquil lakeside hamlet of Pelion, Maine will be the location where she finally finds the peace she so badly seeks. On her first day there, she crosses paths with Archer Hale, a reclusive guy who is hiding his own private suffering. An unobserved man by others.
The plot of Archer’s Voice centers on a woman who is bound by the memory of a terrible night and the guy whose love holds the key to her release. It tells the story of a man who cannot speak because of a painful wound and the lady who gives him the confidence to speak. It is a tale of pain, karma, and the healing power of love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”
“I lost my heart to you. And, Bree, in case you’re wondering, I don’t ever want it back.”
“Try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks.”
“I didn’t know enough to dream you, Bree, but somehow you came true anyway. How did that happen?” He rubbed his nose along mine, pausing and then pulling back again. “Who read my mind and knew exactly what I wanted, even when I didn’t?”
“I stand by my logic though. I think love is a concept, and each person has an individual word for what sums it up for them. My word for love is Bree.”
Ali Hazelwood’s romance book, The Love Hypothesis, will be available on Berkley Books’ website on September 14, 2021. Olive Smith, a third-year Ph.D. student, doesn’t think long-lasting love relationships exist, but her best friend believes so, which is how she ended up in this predicament. It was always going to require more than just hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks to persuade Anh that Olive is dating and is well on her way to a happily ever after.
Scientists need evidence. Olive panics as a result and kisses the first man she sees, just like any self-respecting biologist. Adam Carlsen, a hotshot young professor, and notorious ass is the one and only. Because of this, Olive is delightfully shocked when Stanford’s top lab tyrant offers to be her pretend lover and keep Olive’s farce a secret.
However, when a significant scientific conference goes awry, Olive’s profession is pushed to the back burner, Adam shocks Olive once more with his unconditional support and his even more unwavering… six-pack abs. Their small experiment feels as though it might explode at any moment. Olive also learns that examining her own heart is the one thing that is trickier than a theory on love.
Belly counts the summers throughout her life. Between June and August, everything wonderful and amazing takes place. Winters serve as nothing more than a season for counting down the days until the upcoming summer. They are a period spent away from Susannah, the beach house, and, most significantly, Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the same male’s Belly has known since the summer she spent in grade school; they have been her crushes, her brother figures, and everything between. But after one particularly awful and amazing summer, everything eventually turns out just as it should have all along.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.”
“It’s the imperfections that make things beautiful”
“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
“Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have.”
“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.”
She’s about to strike a deal with the bad lad from college. Finally, Hannah Wells has met someone who makes her feel hot. She may be self-assured in all other aspects of her life, but when it comes to sex and seduction, she is carrying a lot of baggage. She’ll have to break out of her comfort zone and grab her crush’s attention, even if that means tutoring the pompous, conceited, and obnoxious hockey team captain in exchange for a phony date.
Garrett Graham has always dreamed of joining the NHL after graduation, but his deteriorating GPA is jeopardizing all he has fought so hard to achieve. He’s willing to assist a snarky brunette and make another guy envious if it means keeping his spot on the team. But Garrett quickly realizes that pretending isn’t going to cut it as an unexpected kiss triggers the naughtiest sex of both of their lives. He only needs to persuade Hannah that the man she desires resembles him now.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know how you ever lived without them.”
“I want to murder him in his sleep, A. No, I want to murder him when he’s awake so he can see the joy on my face when I do it.”
“Hey, come on, don’t cry,” he begs. “It breaks my fucking heart to hear you cry.”
“Living well and being happy is how we get over the shit in our past.”
“Unbelievable. Every girl at this college would cut her frickin’ arm off to help me out. But this one? Runs away like I just asked her to murder a cat so we could sacrifice it to Satan.”
Ella Rubenstein accepts a position as a reader for a literary agent at the age of forty and in an unhappy marriage. Her first task is to read and analyze the book Sweet Blasphemy, which was authored by Aziz Zahara. Ella is captivated by his account of Shams’s quest for Rumi and the dervish’s contribution to the prosperous but dissatisfied cleric’s transformation into a dedicated mystic, passionate poet, and proponent of love. Shams’s teachings, or rules, which provide insight into an antiquated philosophy based on the equality of all people and religions and the existence of love in every single one of us, also capture her attention. As she continues to read, she comes to understand that Zahara, like Shams, has come to set her free and that Rumi’s story mirrors her own.
Elif Shafak, a renowned Turkish author, presents two enticing parallel narratives in this lyrical, vivacious sequel to her 2007 book The Bastard of Istanbul—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century when Rumi met his spiritual guide, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together embodied the poet’s eternal message of love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”
― Elif Şafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
The color of the blood—red or silver—divides this planet. The Silver elite, who control the Reds, are commoners with superhuman abilities akin to those of gods. Mare Barrow, a Red teenager from the impoverished Stilts, is seventeen years old, and she believes that nothing will ever shift. Up until the point when she starts working at the Silver Palace. Mare learns that despite having red blood, she wields a lethal power of her own here, surrounded by those she despises the most. one that poses a danger to the power dynamic. The Silvers conceal Mare in plain sight and claim she is a long-lost princess who is now engaged to a Silver prince out of fear for Mare’s potential. Mare works covertly to support the Red Guard, a militant rebel movement, and overthrow the Silver government even though she is aware that one wrong move could result in her demise. Mare has entered a hazardous dance, pitting Reds against Silvers, princes against princes, and herself against her own heart, yet this is a world of treachery and deception.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
“Anyone can betray anyone.”
“Rise, red as the dawn.”
“Words can lie. See beyond them.”
“I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.”
In a different version of the United States, the government requires everyone who turns 18 to undergo a surgery known as the Cure since it has been classified as a deadly disease. Lena Haloway, who resides in Portland, Maine with her aunt, uncle, and cousins, is eagerly anticipating her recovery and the start of a secure, routine life. Her mother was destroyed by love, and she is not ready to make the same error.
However, Lena meets mysterious Alex, a guy from the “Wilds” who lives beneath the government’s radar, with 95 days till her treatment. If they do the unthinkable and fall in love, what will happen?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
“You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.”
“I’d rather die my way than live yours.”
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
“Love: It will kill you and save you, both”
Society officials make decisions. those you cherish. the place you work after death. Cassia has always had faith in their decisions. For long life, the ideal work, and the ideal partner, it’s barely a price to pay. Cassia is therefore positive that her best buddy is the one when he shows up on the matching screen. until she briefly catches a glimpse of another face before the television becomes blank. Cassia is now forced to make unthinkable decisions between Xander and Ky, between the life she has always known and a route no one else has ever dared take—between passion and perfection. A story with the resonance of a classic, Matched is one for the present.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
“Once you want something, everything changes.”
“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
The Republic, a country that is constantly at war with its neighbors, now resides in what was formerly the western United States. June, 15, is a prodigy being prepared for achievement in the Republic’s top military circles. She was born into a wealthy family in one of the wealthiest districts of the Republic. Day, a 15-year-old who was born in a slum, is the most wanted criminal in the nation. But his motivations might not be as evil as they first appear.
June and Day, who come from completely different worlds, have no reason to interact—that is, until the day when June’s brother, Metias, is killed and Day is named the main suspect. The day is fighting for his family’s life in the ultimate cat and mouse game, while June is out to exact revenge on Day for Metias’s passing. The two learn the horrifying reality about what actually brought them together and the nefarious extent their country would go to maintain its secrets, however, in a startling turn of events.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
“What a joke! Poor little rich girl’s fallen in love with the Republic’s most famous criminal.”
“Forever and ever, kid, until you’re sick and tired of seeing me.”
“The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his
“You try to walk in the light.”
Tally is eagerly anticipating turning sixteen. She will get the surgery that will transform her from a repulsive ugly into a stunningly beautiful in a matter of weeks. And because she’s attractive, she’ll be thrust into a futuristic paradise where her only responsibility is to have fun.
Shay, Tally’s new acquaintance, is unsure if she wants to pursue a career in beauty. Tally discovers a brand-new aspect of the picturesque world when Shay flees, and it’s not very picturesque. Tally is given the option by the authorities to either find her buddy and turn her in, or to never turn pretty at all. Tally’s decision will alter her reality forever.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
“When she awoke, the world was on fire.”
“We’re not freaks, Tally. We’re normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we’re not hyped-up Barbie dolls.”
“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”
The Selection is the opportunity of their lives for 35 girls – the chance to leave the life that has been predetermined for them since birth, to get sucked into a world filled with costly diamonds and glistening garments, and to contend for the affection of charming Prince Maxon while residing in a palace.
But being chosen is a nightmare for America Singer. It entails her abandoning her covert romance with Aspen, a member of a lower caste. leaving her home to participate in a challenging contest for a crown she doesn’t desire. residing in a palace that is frequently attacked by vicious rebels. Then Prince Maxon encounters America. She gradually begins to doubt all of her expectations for herself and discovers that the life she’s constantly envisaged might not be as fulfilling as the future she could never have imagined.
Just 264 days have passed since Juliette last touched anyone. Although it was an accident the previous time she did it, The Reestablishment imprisoned her for murder. Why Juliette’s touch is deadly is a mystery. Nobody really cares as long as she does not at all harm anyone else. Too much is happening in the world right now to focus on a 17-year-old girl. The population is being wiped out by diseases, food is scarce, birds can no longer fly, and the skies are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment locked Juliette in a cell after claiming that it was the only method for putting things right. As a result of the current death toll, the Reestablishment has shifted its position and the survivors are talking war. Juliette might be more than just a troubled soul trapped inside a lethal shell. Perhaps she is just what they need at this time. Decide if Juliette will be a weapon. or take up arms.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
“I’m oxygen and he’s dying to breathe.”
“Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.”
“I’ve been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
“Hope is a pocket of possibility.
I’m holding it in my hand.”
One decision has the power to change you—or to ruin you. Tris Prior must continue working to save those she loves—and herself—while juggling haunting issues of loss and redemption, identity and loyalty, politics and love. But every decision has repercussions, and as unrest rises in the groups all around her, Tris Prior must keep trying to save those she loves—and herself.
The day of Tris’ initiation ought to have concluded in victory and celebration with her preferred faction; instead, it was filled with horrible atrocities. The threat of war has increased as tensions between the factions and their ideas rise. And during times of war, decisions must be made, secrets will come to light, and decisions will become even more final—and powerful. Tris must completely accept her Divergence, even though she is unsure of what she might lose in the process. Tris has been transformed by her own choices as well as by lingering grief and remorse, shocking new learnings, and altering relationships.
The eagerly awaited second installment of the dystopian DIVERGENT series by New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth is another thrilling thrill ride with all the usual twists, heartbreaks, romance, and profound insights into human nature.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
“Sleep,” he says. “I’ll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.”
“It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
Daniel Grigori evokes a painfully familiar feeling. He immediately grabs Luce Price’s interest when she first sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in humid Savannah, Georgia. He is mysterious and aloof. He is the lone shining light in a school were using cell phones is prohibited, all of the other students are idiots, and surveillance cameras record every action.
She can’t let it go, even when Daniel makes it abundantly plain that he desires nothing whatsoever to do with Luce. She is compelled to learn what Daniel is so determined to keep a secret, even if it means dying, for she is attracted to him as a moth to a flame.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?”
“Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it’s a good way to get yourself killed.”
“The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.”
“You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.”
“It felt so good
just to be held”
All that is required is a quick DNA test. With just a brief mouth swab, you can be genetically matched with the ideal companion in no time. Match Your DNA makes that commitment. The business claimed to have discovered the gene that matches each of us with our soul mate ten years ago. Since then, millions of individuals have been linked globally. However, the discovery has some drawbacks: test results have destroyed numerous relationships and challenged conventional notions of dating, romance, and love.
Five very different persons have now each received a “Matched” notification. Each of them is about to find their true love. But not everyone gets to live happily ever after because secrets exist even amongst soulmates. Additionally, some are more stunning than others… The One is a fascinating book that demonstrates how even the most straightforward findings can have complex repercussions. It was a word-of-mouth sensation in the UK.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you’ve got the opportunity to love someone as much as they love you, then grab it with both hands and hold on to it for dear life.”
“Maybe when you took it back to basics, that’s what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.”
“There were others out there like him, which meant that Christopher was normal, just a different type of normal.”
“I also wanted to demonstrate how greedy we are as human beings. How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”
“It’d be like suing gun manufacturers on behalf of anyone who’s ever been shot. It’s not the fault of the weapon, it’s the user.”
In the dystopian Chicago society created by Beatrice Prior, there are five factions: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the courageous), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the learned) (the intelligent). All sixteen-year-olds must choose the faction to which they’ll dedicate the rest of their lives on a designated day each year. Beatrice must choose between remaining with her family and coming out as who she truly is since she cannot be both. She thus makes a decision that shocks both herself and everyone else.
Beatrice adopts the name Tris during the extremely competitive induction that follows and battles with the other initiates to carry out their decisions. Together, they must endure difficult physical endurance tests and demanding psychological simulations, some of which have grave repercussions. Tris must decide who her true friends are as initiation alters them all and where precisely a romance with an often interesting, sometimes irritating boy fits into the world she has chosen. Tris has a secret, though, and she has kept it a secret from everyone since she has been warned it may be fatal. Additionally, she finds that her secret might either help her save the people she cares about or endanger them as she uncovers unrest and escalating conflict that threaten to tear apart her society’s façade of perfection.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
“I might be in love with you.” He smiles a little. “I’m waiting until I’m sure to tell you, though.”
“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different.”
“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up”
The Maze Runner, the first book in The Maze Runner series, is a young adult dystopian science fiction book created by American novelist James Dashner.
Thomas can only recall his name when he awakens in the elevator. Guys whose memories are likewise lost are all around him; they are strangers. The Glade is surrounded by imposing stone walls, yet beyond them is an endless maze that changes constantly. There is no other way out, and no one has ever survived. Then a female shows up. the first-ever female. She also conveys a terrible message. Remember. Run, then live.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.”
“You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!”
“It’s kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.”
“Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.”
“I’ve been shucked and gone to heaven.”
Everything changes in the blink of an eye. Mia, who is now seventeen, has no recollection of the disaster; all she can recall is what happened later when she saw her own wounded body being removed from the wreck. She labors to piece everything together, to understand what she has gained, what she has sacrificed, and the extremely difficult decision she must make. This will alter how you view life, love, and family because it is so exquisitely beautiful and heartbreaking. Mia’s narrative will stick with you for a very, very long time. It is now a big-budget movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
“And that’s just it, isn’t it? That’s how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won’t feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”
Melanie Stryder won’t go away. A species that takes control of human hosts’ minds while maintaining their bodies unharmed has invaded the earth. Wanderer, the alien “soul” that has been given Melanie’s body, wasn’t prepared to discover its former occupant reluctant to give up control of her thoughts.
Wanderer starts to crave for a man she’s never encountered as Melanie feeds her thoughts with images of Jared, a human who is still hiding out. Melanie and Wanderer set off in pursuit of the man they both love as reluctant companions.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It’s not the face, but the expressions on it. It’s not the voice, but what you say. It’s not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
“Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.”
“I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.”
“I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.”
“You never know how much time you’ll have.”