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“She's who he imagines calling first when he gets his letter from Princeton, the audience he pictures when he's collecting all the important and also the stupid insignificant parts of his day to give to someone? When he imagines disasters happening, cancer or nuclear fallout or the Big One we're supposed to get in California, at night when it's quiet and he feels all the weight of his own life pressing in on him, she's the lurch in his stomach and the hand he gropes around for in the dark?”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

“You looked like... the whole world was built just so that you could walk on it. Who could look away from that? Who would want to?”
― K. Ancrum

“He rested a plank on his shoulder like a bayonet. and I nearly laughed, thinking, is that what it feels like to fall in love with a soldier on the other side?”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

“There are people so enshrined in your past they'll never stop mattering to you.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light