Phoebe

“Where we come from leaves its fingerprints all over us, and if you know how to read the signs of a place, you know a little bit more who someone is.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and who had been a bystander at a death that was now looking more and more suspicious.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“It was like she had been punched in the gut. Stevie said stuff like that all the time and was told she was wrong. David said it once and got a nod and a compliment.
Oh, the magic of dudes. If only they bottled it.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High