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“I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last.”
― Rachel Vail, If We Kiss

“I dont care who kissed you first as long as I kiss you last.”
― Rachel Vail, If We Kiss

“You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked]
"Yeah."
"Why?" he asked.
The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat.
"Ow!" he screamed.
Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for damage. "That hurt," he shrieked. "You really hurt me."
"Right back at you," I said. "Good-bye Carson."
He frowned, massaging his hand, the big baby. "I just wanted to end this nicely."
"Yeah?" I cocked the bat up to hit him again. "Well, this time you don't get what you want.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Do you think we're being robbed?" I whispered.
He nodded gravely, then crawled over to my closet and opened it.
"Did you want to borrow something more formal to wear for the robbery? I'm not sure I have anything in your size."
"Shh," he whispered. "Don't you at least have a tennis racket or anything?"
"You think they came here looking for a doubles partner?"
He turned quickly and gave me a look, then whipped a Wiffle bat out of the mess.
"Wow," I said. "You jock-type people really are single-minded, aren't you? Uh-oh, we're being robbed. Let's play ball!"
"It's for a weapon," Carson whispered.
"You're gonna hit them with a Wiffle bat?"
"What else you got?"
"Um...A pillow"
"Exactly" ... "Stay behind me," he whispered.
"Can I just say that I never knew this about me before, but weirdly enough this whole protective he-man thing actually turns me on."
"Josie."
"What," I asked.
"Shut Up."
I grabbed my pillow, just in case, so to speak, and tiptoed behind him around the mussed-up bed. "Maybe we should just hide in the closet."
He turned around, rolled his eyes and kissed me. "Shh," he repeated.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“You can't own your victories if you won't admit your failures.”
― Rachel Vail

“I shoved him off the snowmobile. He landed on his back in the snow. "Love is a brat, you think? No, love id fine. You are the brat, you spoiled, rotten brat!”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Love makes us stupid, sometimes.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Please, we're in high school. Hook up and move on.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Sorry," I said...
"Sorry for what?" He glanced over at me.
"For whatever I did wrong," I said.
"Did you do something?"
I shrugged, "Why are you not talking to me?"
"I'm just driving." He moved his hand from the gearshift onto my leg. "Do you like snowmobiling?"
"I love it," I said.
He shot me a look. "Have you ever gone snowmobiling before?"
"No," I said.
He smiled. God, I hate his smile, I love it so much.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“I don't care who kissed you first, as long as I kissed you last - George (If we kiss)”
― Rachel Vail

“I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Sometimes sluttiness is a sign of intense longing.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Pushing Carson back out of the door, I grabbed my jacket off the hook and shoved my feet into the great old clogs that my poor podiatrist father wants outlawed.
"Don't you want to change or something?" Mom called after me.
"She'll never change," Carson answered, and followed me down the steps.
I settled myself into the passenger seat and buckled up as he back out of the driveway. "Your arches are falling?"
"Turns out I am deeply flawed," I admitted.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Some of the choices teenagers make are morally and practically wrong. Some of my characters do things I hope my child won't. There are occasionally words my characters choose that I wouldn't utter in my mother's presence. But when I was sixteen, or twelve, hanging out with my friends? That was different. For a story to feel real, I have to respect what a character would really do or say.”
― Rachel Vail, Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

“It's just one of those things, like some people don't sink when they go in the pool, some know how to throw a ball so it goes toward the person holding the mitt. I have no idea how people do those things; I'm good at schoolwork. That works out well because it frees up my time for my hobbies, like lying on the couch eating M&M's.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Come on Josie." He leaned closer and whispered in my ear, "I really want you there."
"Yeah?" I asked, slamming my locker shut. "And do you always get what you want?"
"Yes," he said.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Just for taste bites of sample bagels have - fun fact - between zero and "screw you" calories”
― Rachel Vail, Well, That Was Awkward

“I am a pacifist, danm it! And now I'm bleeding. What is wrong with you, you sick sicko?”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“Oh it just gives me the heebie-jeebies”
― Rachel Vail, Lucky

“Bruises on the soul hurt even more than bruises on the leg and take longer to heal. Maybe the trick is to try to avoid smashing into stuff so much. And then to be kind to ourselves as we slowly heal.”
― Rachel Vail

“that whole oh I care so much bull. Just to make everybody like her.”
― Rachel Vail, Unfriended

“You don’t have to be friends with everybody, you just can’t be unkind to anybody.”
― Rachel Vail, Unfriended

“Because where’s the bottom of the sky? Right here where I am. The only end point of the sky is the top of the ground. From the ground up, I realized, is all sky. So, even as I slumped there in the damp green grass, I was sitting in the sky.”
― Rachel Vail, Well, That Was Awkward

“Um, so you're in love with Frankie, right?"
"Yes."
"How do you know?"
She thought about it for a minute, then said, "I'm happier when I'm with him. I'm stronger, more daring, more open. You know how when you're ten, you are so much who you are? When I was ten I was like the senior of being a kid. I was into sports, of course, but I was also into politics, I read the paper, I organized a recycling drive, I did cartwheels just because I felt happy. Didn't you?"
"Well," I said, "I have never done a cartwheel. Maybe I've never been that happy."
"No, you know what I mean. I was strong."
... "When I'm not with him," she went on, the words rushing out of her, "I think about him all the time- what he would think, or say, how he would calm me down and help me roll with it, whatever. And when I'm with him, it's just- easy. This might sound weird, but I'm more like I was when I was ten. Minus the cartwheels, plus a little, you know, different kind of physical stuff. I guess I know I'm in love with Frankie because I'm more like myself when I'm with him.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“yass that’s right me and Switzerland the best evah”
― Rachel Vail, Well, That Was Awkward

“But the thing that’s wrong with Danny is more like, he wants friends but doesn’t know how to navigate that, and he doesn’t handle his own feelings particularly well, and so everybody finds him annoying.”
― Rachel Vail, Bad Best Friend

“Even the most difficult among us are really just walking a sometimes rough path, feeling too many feelings all at once. Be gentle with everybody, Mom always says; be gentle and generous.”
― Rachel Vail, Well, That Was Awkward

“If answers are the destination, questions are the oars.”
― Rachel Vail