Michelle

“How do you read those so quickly?" Viv waggled her fingers. "Is it some kind of...magic thing?"
Satchel turned a page with one slender digit. "I look at the page, and then the words are in my mind. That's the accepted way, yes?"
"All of the words on the page? All at once?" said Fern.
..."you read them one by one?" he asked curiously.
"Yes!" they both cried at the same time.
He appeared to think about that. "That seems quite inefficient, if you don't mind my saying so.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."
He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)”
― Rick Riordan