KJ

“I could fall in love with Dallas Winston," she said. "I hope I never see him
again, or I will.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“You’re not a phase, Leila. If anything, you’re the only thing in my life that makes sense these days.” I”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

“It was too late to tell Dally. Would he have listened? I doubted it. Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did. It was too much of a problem to be just a personal thing.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“For as long as I could remember, I had been apologizing for existing, for trying to be who I was, to live the life I was meant to lead.”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl