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“It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“There’s so much I want for her that sometimes I think the seams of my skin aren’t enough to contain every hope I have. And I whisper it to her all the time. When I’m feeding her. When she’s asleep in my arms. When we are playing at the park. I whisper all the everything I know she can be and the ways I’ll fight for her to be them. I want her to know her entire life her mommy may not have had a powerful job or made millions, but that her moms did everything so that she could be an accumulation of the best dreams.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“So much of my decision to have sex had more to do with being chosen than it did with any actual sexual attraction.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Who made this boy think I had time for him? Got me out here wasting all my good words. But then he smiles. Dimples popping out on both cheeks like billboards for joy and I stumble over my own feet.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“The fake sweet smile she was wearing has cannonballed clear off her face into a pool of confusion.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“The moment stretches into the yard beyond awkward and enters the goal post of embarrassing.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“It's like she's a wooly mammoth whose most comfortable seat is my last nerve.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High