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“I used to think love was bound by numbers: first kisses, second dances, infinite heartbreaks. I used to think numbers outlasted the love itself, surviving in the dark corners of the demolished heart. I used to think love was heavy and hard.
I don’t think those things anymore.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“[A] person is a person first and a story second.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?

“I ask, “You ever hear that a person has to go through fire to become who they’re meant to be?”
Mendes sips her coffee, nods. “Sure.”
“I’ve always wanted to be strong, Miss Mendes, I just wish there wasn’t so much fire.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Quiet observers tend to be loud thinkers.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“My heart was so full, I thought it might explode into the ether, creating some bizarre new solar system whose inhabitants ate only love, drank only hope, and breathed only joy. What a substantial galaxy that would be.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“If you can affect someone when they're young, you are in their hearts forever.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?

“Live your fear." Why didn't we teach kids that? Why wasn't that in a graduation speech? Commencement speakers should start telling the truth: "You're going to fuck up, but most of the time, that's all right.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?

“Memories are as infinite as the horizon.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“She changed the song, because she was alone, and she didn’t have to listen to what other people liked when she was alone. She forgot, sometimes, that she could make her own choices.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Liz was afraid of silence, and she kept her fears clenched so tightly in her fists that they grew and grew and swallowed her whole.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“I think Mad saw in books what I saw in art: the weightless beauty of the universe.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Walt Whitman was right. We do contain multitudes. Most are hard and heavy, and what a headache. But some multitudes are wondrous.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“You guys are the most beautiful run-on sentence I’ve ever heard,' I said.
'We,' said Mad.
'What?'
'We are the most beautiful run-on sentence you’ve ever heard.'
We. What a word.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“And when the kids needed someone most, someone to love and trust, they found one another, and they called themselves the Kids of Appetite, and they lived and they laughed and they saw that it was good.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“You and Victor are my North, South, East, and West. You are my Due Everywhere.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Our past tenses last way longer than our present ones.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Mad did more than sew together some metaphorical patch. It wasn’t that she fixed me so much as she helped me fix myself.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“People talk about coincidence like it’s some big thing. But it’s not. We bump into one another all the time. Mostly I think people are just too blind to notice.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Sideways hugs are such bullshit. Hug me or don’t. The indecisiveness is a real problem for me.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“I’ve always found a certain warmth in words when they’re spoken in the cold outdoors. I don’t know. It’s like words take the breath of the person speaking them, and wear that breath like a sweater.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“The girls are packed in so tight there is barely room enough to breathe, and still more are coming. Cheers turn to screaming, shouting, crying. The sound is deafening, primal. It is every feeling, all at once. It is all the girls, all their voices, calling out as loud as they can. They burn through darkness. They brand the night.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“It’s a sad thing, recognizing yourself in a sad thing.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“She hates the feeling of the world crushing her. She hates metaphors being the only way to describe it.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“It’s no accident, the memories that last. They are survivors.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Was it always this easy? All that time missing her mom, all she had to do was say something? All that time wanting, all she had to do was ask? Grace wonders how much of her life she has wasted waiting for things to come to her, too afraid to take chances, too afraid to make herself and her desires known.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“Margot smiles. “Your comments are always thoughtful and smart. You seem really steady and calm, and not swayed by people’s disagreements and emotions and everything.”
“But I’m too quiet,” Grace says.
“You don’t have to be loud to be a leader,” Margot says. “People respect you. That’s what’s important.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“The things is,” Rosina says, “people don’t want to hear something that’ll make their lives more difficult, even if it’s the truth. People hate having to change the way they see things. So instead of admitting the world is ugly, they shit on the messenger for telling them about it.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“But just because she's not helpless doesn't mean she doesn't need help.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls