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“I spend the first week after screwing everything up with Kit too ashamed to do anything except write her a stupid text. I keep it short, limit it to the words I know can’t be the wrong ones: I’m sorry. I don’t trust myself not to make a bigger mess of things by saying more. Whenever I pick up the phone to text again, I freeze up with anxiety. I don’t feel like I deserve the chance to explain. I don’t even deserve to share the same air molecules
as Kit.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“Her eyebrows knit, and she leans forward farther over the wheel. I wonder how long I could watch her think without getting bored. I estimate at least thirty-nine minutes.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“You match, you know? Your outsides and your insides are beautiful,â€� David says, and he throws one arm stiffly over my shoulder. The movement is awkward and clumsy and because of this awkwardness and clumsiness—not despite it—I’m charmed.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“I watch my classmates spilling out of school, in groups of two or three, their formations intimidatingly organic.
Atoms into molecules. Like usual, I am alone.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“I don’t know what to say to this. David Drucker has a theory about my metaphorical radio waves.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“What I’ve never understood is why the boys are always shocked when they get their first glance of their newly made-up date, as if the girls weren’t already beautiful despite their penchant for androgynous clothing. Do
screenwriters think teenage boys lack all power of imagination?”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“I let David fill our table up with conversation, his words like cartoon bubbles taking up the space I can’t seem to fill. Which is a long way of saying if he wants to talk prime numbers, so be it.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“I’m Asian, though. I’m allowed to say it. My people slay at this shit.â€� I don’t say anything back because I don’t know if being Asian allows you to say racist things about other Asians. I’m not aware of this carve-out. “Tell us everything you know about quantum mechanics,â€� José says, and then, just like when I drop-kicked Meat Boy, my whole body sighs with pleasure.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next