Hanne De Meester

“The leaves are tinged amber at the sides, the pale orange merging with the deep greens of summer. It's as though somebody has dipped a paintbrush in red watercolour paint and then left it atop a green paper towel. The pain seeps gradually through the porous paper and eventually fully stains it: within the month the leaves will be red.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story

“Everything was heightened the way it always is when summer is slipping away to fall, and you're younger than eighteen, and all you can do is suck your cherry Icee and let the chlorine sting your nose, all the way up into the pockets behind your eyes, and snap your towel at the pretty girl with the sunburn, and hope to do it all again come June.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

“I was paralyzed by possibility, caught between the vertigo of fulfilment and the abyss of uncertainty.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“remember that you can find friends: remember that there are people similar to you. All you have to do is look up.”
― Ruby Granger, Erimentha Parker's To Do List: A Bullying Story