Serena Kaylor > Quotes

“I intend to see you a lot, Mouse. I’m going to walk you to your five thousand classes, make you eat dinner when I know you’ve forgotten, push around a wheelbarrow to transport all your books, and kiss you at every possible moment.”
― Serena Kaylor, Long Story Short

“Whatever our souls are made of, mine is my own. I am not a shared existence- always half and lacking without the other. I'm an entire galaxy, and I need nothing or nobody to orbit.”
― Serena Kaylor, The Calculation of You and Me

“Why didn’t you kiss Shelby?”
He grinned, his eyes shining. “Because I only wanted to kiss one person on this stage tonight.”
― Serena Kaylor, Long Story Short

“I looked up at the millions of stars dotting the skies.
They winked at me, like old friends. I knew their names, their origin and evolution. Cassiopeia. Ursa Major. Hercules. Sagittarius. Things were different now, though. I was different. I now had memories of nights sitting under them, and whispered conversations during movies, and racing through the woods laughing with friends while golden wings rippled behind me. Despite some of the more frustrating or confusing aspects of this summer, I knew deep down that something had irrevocably changed.”
― Serena Kaylor, Long Story Short

“It may be Shakespeare, and the writing may be dated, but the basic plot is still current. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, and six people die in their attempt to be together,” she said, laughing.

“This is why I was homeschooled. High school sounds way too dangerous.”
― Serena Kaylor, Long Story Short

“So, this is a thing now?” I asked, my chin propped up on his chest.
“One of the most important things,” he said, his voice raspy.”
― Serena Kaylor, Long Story Short