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“I wish I had that on a T-shirt: My mom died now what.
Maybe if I wore it long enough, someone would give me the answer”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“He knelt down beside me, a hand on my knee, so that we were eye level with each other. He was just so handsome, I wanted to trace the lines of his face, I wanted to sketch the sharpness of his jawbone, I wanted to paint the color of his hair. This scene would go in the section of the travel guide labeled “Scenic Spots” because I wouldn’t get tired of looking at his face for years—decades. I wanted to watch it age, I wanted to see what kind of wrinkles knitted into his smiles.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“In the mirror, I see the girl I could have been if I tried out for cheerleadering. I see what I would have looked like if I was the sort of girl who could turn a cartwheel and have more friends than favorite books. Every dress is another girl who is not me.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“But there is a difference between knowing something and feeling it. I've known that he wasn't my Finny anymore, but now he is on the other shore, seperated from me by an ocean I am afraid to cross, and I can feel it.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me