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“she has the I-don't-care-if-I'm-not-going-the-same-way-as-the-world-outlook.”
― Katie McGarry, Walk the Edge

“Alexandre's smile vanished once more. "What have I told you about profanity?"
The girl sighed, though she couldn't help but smile as the pedantic change of tone. "A true lady never curses," she parroted back at him.
"And do we know why?"
Adrienne blinked. He'd never gotten into it, and she'd assumed it was another of the endlessly labyrithine laws of etiquette. "Umm, because it's not ladylike?" she ventured.
"No. Because a true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at the very least the restraint, to express herself without resorting to such base vocabulary.”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“Clearly, the only viable option is to Sherlock the shit out of this”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“That's the strange dichotomy of me. I love to watch idealized versions of kids my age and yet I don't know how to live among them.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, Famous Last Words