“Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?”– “The Sky is Everywhere” by Jandy Nelson.Spotlight on: LOVEWhat is it about love? As soon as a book …

“I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury… I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.”– “Where She Went” by Gayle FormanSpotlight on: ANGERThe Ancient Greeks believed that anger was …

Hope is one of the most important emotions in literature. It’s the thing that drives us forward, even when things look really, really bad. In every story, there’s a moment when you just don’t think you can do it anymore. Everything is too hard. Maybe you should just give up.“Folk in those stories had lots …

Was it the vivid or accurate descriptions? Did it put into words a feeling hard to define? Maybe it convincingly conjured a unique emotion or experience?“There’s something else about them, something that makes the hair rise up on the back of my neck, but I can’t put my finger on it.” – The Hunger Games, …