Kate

“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. He grins. “Each new self standing on the last one’s shoulders until we’re these wobbly people poles?” I die of delight. “Yes, exactly! We’re all just wobbly people poles!”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Honestly, Elise, sometimes it's like you don't even go to this school.' 'Well, that is the goal,' I said.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

“He felt a weight roll off him, the exquisite relief of canceled plans that extroverts will never know.”
― Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

“I remember Guillermo saying the cracks and breaks were the best and most interesting parts of the work in my portfolio. Perhaps it’s the same with people and their cracks and breaks.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun