Norah Cain

“My mom once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: the ones who love their high school years and the ones who spend the next decade recovering from them. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, she said.
But something did kill her, and I’m not stronger. So go figure; maybe there’s a third kind of person: the ones who never recover from high school at all.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“[...] who tests you on a novel? The whole idea of reading a novel, or a poem, is to come up with your own ideas about it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“I think of his hands fixing me a plate, almost touching my banged-up face, and all I can think about is how much I want to kiss them: his eyes, his hands too.
All of him.
His damaged parts.
All of him.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“My fear of saying something stupid often leaves me saying almost nothing at all.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things