Hope

“People see my kindle and all they see is an e-reader. I see a sex toy.”
― Alexis Angel

“I was wondering if I could talk to you?” I fiddled with one of the drawstrings of my hoodie [...]

“Talk?” He stared up at me with a blank expression. I hated blank expressions, because people only used them when they didn’t want to show what they were really feeling. And I really sucked at trying to figure out what people were feeling.

“Yeah,” I said, rather condescendingly. “You know, that thing you do where you open your mouth and words come out?”
― Amanda Abram, The Importance of Getting Revenge

“I’ve been giving it a lot of thought since yesterday and I’ve come up with a few ideas.” “Like what?” “Like, for starters, we have got to do something about your wardrobe.” I glanced down at myself. I was wearing a pair of flare jeans and a gray t-shirt that said, “BOOK NERD”, where every straight vertical line of each letter was the spine of a book. I thought it was clever. “What’s wrong with my wardrobe?” “Honestly, nothing…if you weren’t trying to attract the attention of Matt Fisher. Which, by the way, is confusing to me. What about him makes you so hot and bothered? It can’t just be his good looks because I’m good-looking too and you hate me.”
― Amanda Abram, Challenge Accepted

“Can we get this makeup thing over before we’re late for school?”

“Oh, right.” She jumped up from the bed and opened up her backpack.

I hated wearing makeup, which was why I never wore any. So needless to say, I wasn't looking forward to this.

She held out a tube of something for me to see. “This will help conceal the dark circles under your eyes. And this,” she said, showing me another tube, “will help to conceal the blotchy spots on your cheeks.”

I grunted. “Do you have anything that will help conceal the hump on my back?”
― Amanda Abram, The Importance of Getting Revenge