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“It is youth’s gift not to feel its debts.”
― Madeline Miller

“Alice would only have to be in the hospital for two nights this time, and it was only out of, according to her mother, "an abundance of caution." It reminded her of a murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a pack of wolves. She imagined that "caution" was a creature of some kind -- maybe, a cross between a Saint Bernard and an elephant. A large, intelligent, friendly animal that could be counted on to defend the Green sisters from threats, existential and otherwise.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Friend” was a word that contained an entire universe.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The next morning, I watched his older brother hold him in his arms as he looked at me with tears in his eyes. "It's a boy, Ari. It's a boy!" And I knew what he was thinking. And he's going to be straight. And he's going to give my parents the grandchildren I will never be able to give them.
Does being gay screw with our heads and our hearts?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World