Amanda Nemer

“Your name is one of the most important pieces of your identity. It is the thing that you own. It is attached to every piece of work that you put into the world. Your name holds power when you walk into a room. No two people with the same name are the same person. It’s important that, like everything else you grow to love in life, your name is something you appreciate as well.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren't Blue

“She'd been a flower. Snipped from the root, quick to wilt, temporary. She'd existed to be lovely and to be chosen. No one had expected her to last.”
― Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

“I think we’ve both waited long enough to turn the page in this story, don’t you?”
― Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

“Here was the taste of it — a little bitter, a little sweet, some citrus brightness, maybe honey. And here was meaning. A home, hers alone.”
― Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena