Amy Spalding > Quotes

“You think you know how you'll react to anything and then a boy shows up and kisses you, and some of that just vanishes.”
― Amy Spalding, The Reece Malcolm List

“Normally it makes me really happy to see, not just that they’re in love but that love like that is possible. Right now, though, I just kind of want to throw water on them.”
― Amy Spalding, The Reece Malcolm List

“He’s wearing a totally normal T-shirt from the mall or whatever, but it hangs on him like the shirt has fulfilled its sole mission in life.”
― Amy Spalding, The Reece Malcolm List

“(All truly great dresses have pockets.)”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Pérez

“So how'd you know you were gay?"

"How'd you know you weren't? It was probably the same way."

He laughs as we get into his car, "Touché.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“No, I wasn’t in love with clothes, but maybe I was in love with how clothes made me feel. I was designing how other people saw me, and that felt powerful.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Pérez

“So many people are so good at so many things. Right now I'm lucky we're supposed to smile during the curtain call, because I'm so happy this is the thing I'm good at.”
― Amy Spalding, The Reece Malcolm List

“It's strange how in just a couple of months, one person can become so much of your world.

Which means when your world's been expanded, when that person's gone, it feels like mass extinction.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“Shouldn't we just admit the friendship had, somehow, run its course?Sure,we might have moments where things feel just like before, but that doesn't erase the long stretches of time, when they don't”
― Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

“The secret about falling in love is how you can do it a million times over with the same person, when the person is the right one.”
― Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

“Abbs, I’m a feminist,” he says. “I’m equally scared of all feelings.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Pérez

“The thing I love about photography is that for just a moment, you can make everyone else look at the world the way you see it.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“It’s incredible how many things can be interpreted as I miss you and want you back and also deeply want to have sex with you when the recipient is desperately seeking that meaning.”
― Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

“I like how I look, usually, but people - especially people on the internet - can be so mean when you're fat. As if fat makes you stupid or dirty or irresponsible. As if fat makes you anything other than...fat.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“Ari laughed. “Hardly. My longest relationship is with my cat, and it’s not even a healthy one. I’m so codependent for that jerk.”
― Amy Spalding, For Her Consideration

“After all, the boys added up—Tony, Bryce, Javier, and I guess Logan, too—didn’t come close to this. There are breakup tunes and lovesick ballads and celebrating-that-he-was-gone anthems. It was easy to believe that romance was the only heartache out there.”
― Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

“She’s cute, she’s smart, and she’s funny as hell,” he says. “She’s kind of like you but less …” “Gay?” Jax almost howls laughing. “I was gonna say difficult.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Pérez

“Then we kiss underneath the glow of dozens of lightbulbs shimmering in a tree. And for just this moment, my world is a fairy tale.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“Nina Rice,” she said, and I felt my whole body turn toward her in this warm leather seat, a flower to the sun. “Tell me you’re an option.”
― Amy Spalding, For Her Consideration

“I’d never really pictured myself dating anyone, it’s true, but I guess I still had this little corner in my mind tucked away even from myself about what it would be like anyway. Maybe you can’t help but lock away a little hope, no matter how improbable that possibility might be.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Pérez

“When you're making your way through the world in a look you feel confident about, everything feels easier.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“There's a new chance to love every goddamn day.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“I’ve just realized that I’m probably doomed at love. Because I’m pretty sure I’m not the heroine. I don’t even think I’m in my own story.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Pérez

“I guess I thought that friendship was something you'd always need in one specific way, but it basically goes without saying that my friendship with Jax is nothing like mine with Maliah, and somehow not in a way that makes it worse...or even better. It's just its own thing.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“I assumed if something was going on, you would have told me,” I say. “I tell you everything.” “God, don’t I know it,” she says. “When would there have been room for my problems? For me at all?” Whoa. “James . . . it’s not like that. I tell you everything because you’re my best friend.” “But it’s not like that,” she says. “It’s like I’ve been your therapist. You dump all over me and then you don’t even stick around to reciprocate. At least therapists get paid. I’m just doing all of it for free.”
― Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends

“I’m more of a project than a person, really.”
― Amy Spalding, The New Guy

“Having a crush makes you an idiot.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“And right at this very moment, for maybe the first time ever, I feel like I'm in my own story.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“I'm convinced that my physical heart feels more like a metaphorical Valentine's one right now. This must be like what it feels like to fall in love with someone, which means that somehow I, Abby Ives, am falling in love at seventeen and without any of my apparent flaws fixed. It's just me, and this is still happening.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Perez

“It just seems like . . . I mean, I’m seventeen. Wouldn’t I know by now if I liked girls?” I try to picture it, liking Quinn. It’s silly to act like it would mean the same thing as it means now, even if already we spend so much time together. James and I spend plenty of time together, and I’m not in love with her. Liking Quinn would be completely new territory.”
― Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends