Mirielly

“I keep going: “But there are other ways to connect with people.”
“What do you mean?”
“You know,” I say, popping a piece of lettuce into my mouth. “Like, just paying attention. I pay attention to you.”
She turns pink. Almost all of her turns pink. It’s fucking adorable. I want to die.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“Why’d you call for a meeting if you’re not even going to talk to me?”
“I didn’t call this meeting,” says Kenji. “Warner did. And we’re ten minutes early, so technically the meeting hasn’t started yet. This is snack time.”
“Yeah,” says Winston around a bite of apple. “This is snack time. We work hard for snack time.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“This man lives to worry about you. It’s his favorite thing to do. Between worrying about you and talking about you and frolicking through fields aggressively shouting your name at wildlife, I’m surprised the man has any time left to fuck with the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“I don’t like people,” says Winston. “I know this about myself. It’s just that I forget I don’t like people until I actually meet people, and then I remember why I never meet people. It’s because I don’t like them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me