Bianca Isabel

“"Mom, Arnie Welsh keeps calling me a geek. He says it like it's a bad thing. Is being a geek a bad thing?"

"Of course not, Soda Pop. And don't listen to labels. They don't matter."

"What are labels?"

"It's an imaginery sticker people slap on you with the word they think you are written on it. It doesn't matter who they think you are. It matters who you think you are."

"I think I might be a geek."

She laughed. "Then you be a geek. Just be whatever makes you happy, Soda Pop, and I'll be happy too.”
― Samantha Young, Before Jamaica Lane

“Have you seen this guy yet?"

"Nope. My peephole is getting a workout, though."

"Glad to hear at least one hole is getting some action around here.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“Life is about making mistakes. If you don’t take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you’re not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You’re denying yourself much more than the bad things in life by listening to Zita’s fortunes.”
― Kimberly Karalius, Love Fortunes and Other Disasters