Mary

“The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“I was still a little amazed that this was happening. That this, the thing that had seemed so impossible, so terrifying, so utterly beyond me, was happening. I was having fun. And that I was the one who made it happen. "I did it," I said out loud, sendind my voice up to the stars above me, not really caring if the others heard me.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“And then like two people jumping off a rock into water, I guess we both fell helplessly into sleep. I'm not sure which of us gets there first.”
― Meg Wolitzer

“He was like a long beaker in chemistry class, and the top was always bubbling over because some interesting process was taking place inside”
― Meg Wolitzer, Belzhar