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“People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they're wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“And she was *happy*. The kind of happy that smoothed time into still frames.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Everything changes. I'll learn to be fine.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.”
― Laura Lee Gulledge, Page by Paige: A Graphic Novel

“I exist dad! I wake up every morning and I exist. Because you made me. I didn’t ask to be here, in this world, in this house, but you guys made me and I’m here and I exist, even though you pretend I don’t. And you know what? It really hurts. It hurts that you treat me like nothing and treat Adam like everything. It hurts how we’re all scared of you. Literally everything about you hurts me, and you don’t even care that it hurts.”��”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“The very next day after Miss West and I’d talked about her son and missions, she was the same as she’d always been: volatile and unhappy with a hatred that spewed out of her like missiles. I thought I understood why. She must have hated us for being alive when her son was dead.

Lately the class has been turning against her. They’re openly hostile, and they whisper plots for revenge. It seems unfair, the way unhappiness flows out of a person, just to ricochet.
“Adam…do you think we have a missions?��
He looks at me with a confused expression. “What kind of missions?��
“I don’t know. Do you think you have a mission?��
I shrug, disappointed. If Adam doesn’t know, then I guess no one does.
A girl turns onto our hall, eyes red and sad, and she passes, Adam sends her a smile. Her whole face brightens and she sends him a smile back.
Hate ricochets, but kindness does too. Page 178.”
― Robin Roe

“Max waited until Barry went into the back office before tapping the aquarium tank and agitating the fish.
"...here's the truth, Hildy. None of us guys is good enough for you --especially not Neanderbob. You deserve someone who's kind and creative and super hot."
"And straight."
"Yeah, that too. Now shut up for a while and watch. We could all learn something from tropical fish. They're utterly useless and yet content."
"Be still and find your inner guppy."
"Yeah, basically.”
― Vicki Grant

“Why are you asking me?" Viv said. "Ask your lovely girlfriend."
Tim's lips cinched into a happy little knot. Viv looked at him looking at Davida and thought how it was like watching some lab experiment. Bubbles of mercury running into each other's arms. Iron filings performing their mating dance for the magnet. Cesium exploding at the lightest touch of H2O. Exactly what the laws of chemistry demanded. It was as science-y as that. He'd found his person.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“People don’t like when others live differently.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge