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“Fiction was fine, but real life was the true freak show.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“It wasn't a romance; it was too perfect for that. With texts there were only the words and none of the awkwardness. They could get to know each other completely and get comfortable before they had to do anything unnecessarily overwhelming like look at each other's eyeballs with their eyeballs.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“I like knowing that you exist. It doesn't make me feel any less lonely, because life is lonely, but it makes me feel a lot less alone.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“She wished she could explore his body and inspect him. Learn him and memorize him. That way she'd know what to miss when he was gone. Sam was heartbreakingly, hauntingly beautiful. It made her heart hurt. This couldn't end well.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
Q&A with Susane Colasanti
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My sixth teen novel, KEEP HOLDING ON, comes out on May 31. To celebrate, I'll be stopping by to chat with you from May 16 to June 8. Good times. ...more
Ask Lauren DeStefano - Tuesday, February 19th!
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Join us on Tuesday, February 19th for a special discussion with author Lauren DeStefano! Lauren will be discussing her work, including her most recent ...more
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