Amanda DeWitt > Quotes

“It felt like a puzzle, mostly put together but with a piece missing, waiting to be filled. There were plenty of pieces to fill it- gay, straight, bisexual- but none fit quite right. Sometimes I thought I could make one fit if I pressed hard enough, but it would never lie flat.
The word asexual took the puzzle piece and turned it, letting it click into place where before it'd been better to just leave the space empty. I wasn't broken. I wasn't empty. I wasn't nothing at all. Just a little differently shaped.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

“Just because you didn't experience sexual attraction didn't mean you didn't you didn't experience romantic feelings. But those romantic feelings didn't look like they did in the movies because, well, Hollywood didn't make movies about ace people. Period. So they could be a little hard to figure out.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

“I’m going to do better.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

“Don’t take it personally.”
Please take it personally. Please quit student council and leave me alone. Go be tall somewhere else.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

“You might have saved the Dance," I say loftily, "but I saved this school from Cats."

"Not all heroes wear capes," Ryan says, pushing open the classroom door. "You know, I kind of like Cats."

"You like watching aviation disaster documentaries too," I say blandly, hiking up my backpack on one shoulder.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

“I think I might have a crush.

Shit.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

“Halloween would be . . . okay," she says, with all the deliberation of a somewhat uncertain judge delivering a verdict. "But no sexy catgirls. Or boys. No catpeople.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

“Just don't look so hard toward the future that you forget the people you want in it.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

“Frankly, I didn't know where people found the time to have sexual attraction.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

“You don't think I can do it," he says.
I clench my jaw. "No, Leo, I don't think you can convince a corny app to sponsor a high school dance." I let the words drip with as much venom as I can muster. “Don’t take it personally.”
Please take it personally. Please quit student council and leave me alone. Go be tall somewhere else.”
― Amanda DeWitt

“It just said ONYX in a stylish, slanting font. They must have run out of precious metals after platinum.”
― Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist