Esther B...

“I'm not sure,' I said. 'I had a pretty bad reaction to a peanut butter cracker when I was three. A woman at my daycare had to use an EpiPen.'
'Does it freak you out?' Hershey asked. 'Knowing that you're one poor snacking choice away from death?'
I looked at her. Seriously? Who said things like that?”
― Lauren Miller, Free to Fall

“She reached around me, grabbing my Gemini from the back pocket of my jeans. She touched its share button to hers. 'There,' she said, handing the phone back to me. 'You have my number. We should be friends now.”
― Lauren Miller, Free to Fall

“The only question is, how do we take Liam out of commission for a couple of hours?' North asked.
'We roofie him,' I said without hesitation. 'It'll incapacitate him without killing him, and it'll screw with his memories.
'Oh, okay. I'll just grab the bottle of date-rape pills I have in my medicine cabinet.”
― Lauren Miller

“She had white-blond hair cut pixie-short, and a black rose tattoo on the nape of her neck. From behind I could see she had one of those dainty cartoon frames: curvy hips, tiny waist, and mysteriously, no shoulders. I could probably bench-press her.”
― Jessica Martinez, The Space Between Us