Alana

“The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“Do you think I'm fat?" I asked him.
He swallowed and wiped his mouth. "I think you're beautiful.”
― Simmone Howell, Everything Beautiful

“Sometimes the hardest person in the world to talk to is your best friend, because it matters so much.”
― Steph Bowe, Girl Saves Boy

“You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac