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“I let myself think, I hope he loves me, and then I wonder if I've said it out loud. I try hard to remember if I'd formed the words with my lips. No. I didn't. I'm sure I didn't. I'm convinced of it, until he murmurs back, "Don't worry. He does.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“[After Nalena realizes Nok can read her thoughts]

[Garrett] leans towards me until his face is almost touching the skin of my cheek.
'You're thinking, oh crap, aren't you?" he says.
I swallow. Nod. Gulp. "Yeah."...

[Nok] looks at me one more time, his face as open and inviting as a meadow. He says with a shrug, "You. Fine."
Then he turns on his heels and leaves.
"Oh...did you see that?" Mark pipes up. "Nok's got a crush on Nali. You got two whole words out of him!”
― Misty Provencher, Keystone

“I'm starving and I'd much rather have cookies than another riot, wouldn't you?”
― Misty Provencher, Jamb

“The thing is, my dear, everyone has a purpose. Even if it seems to be to walk in circles and spit on you, everyone has a use to us in this world. And that's just the aftertaste. The real, bitter pill is that every moron you encounter is actually here to make you less of one.”
― Misty Provencher, Keystone

“Addo: 'Thank you for letting me know, Charlotte.'
'Madam.' She corrects, doting the name softly in the air with her finger.
'Excuse me, of course, Ma...dam.' When Addo says Madam, he says it funny like my damn, which makes Brandon and Mark snicker from their seats. Although Addo doesn't turn to look at them, his grin assures me that the next words are more for their benefit than Ms. Fisk's.
'So that would make you...My Damn Fisk”
― Misty Provencher, Keystone

“Love is an honorable thing to base a life upon, Addo says, swabbing the crumbs off his face with the back of his hand. "What that's not what you've got here, because love is like an amazing Bordeaux, or properly aged Gouda, or pickles. It's got to have time to ferment on a shelf in a quiet chamber, and then to be proven good, despite itself." He adds, "What you've got right now is more like a cheese stick...with some moonshine and cucumbers.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“Do you mean disrespectful? Blasphemous?" he asks. " Like Jesus, Jesus, bo-beesus, banana fanana fo-feesus, mo meesus...blasphemous to Jesus?" I just stand there like an idiot, not sure what to say to this strange man. He seems more of a wise guy than a wise man. After all, he just Name-Gamed a Third of the Trinity.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“Sometimes thinking about what’s going to happen is worse than what actually happens.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“There was a whole world of air, but without you there, I couldn't breathe any of it in.”
― Misty Provencher, Keystone

“If you're after the Addo, he's holed up down there with Sean. You know what's up with that?"

Garrett just shakes his head as if he's clueless that the Addo is probably down there spewing all the secrets of Addoship to Sean, over a plate of cookies.
Zane squints.”
― Misty Provencher, Keystone

“Some things you just can't understand until the moment that you do.”
― Misty Provencher, Keystone

“There is no such thing as lost. No such thing as alone.”
― Misty Provencher, Capstone

“I guess you can make 'normal' out of any old thing, if you've got enough of it.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“Black shouldn't be used for mourning; it should only be used for slimming...”
― Misty Provencher, Keystone

“He's teasing, but it is obvious that I'm doing t all wrong. I don't know how to peel a stupid potato. Suddenly, I can't force a smile out on my lips. I'm tired of being the person who knows nothing. But Garrett, hardly missing a beat, slips his knife out of my hands and murmurs to me, "Here ya go, Old School, step aside and let me show you how the pro's do it.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“The fear that we will lose is different from the fear of having lost.”
― Misty Provencher, Capstone

“So when he drops his head, I don't leave. Instead, I sit beside Milo Frangere as he tries to pretend that he's not crying quietly into his hands.”
― Misty Provencher, Keystone