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“I just feel stupid’
‘Not stupid,’ George says. ‘A romantic maybe. A dreamer.’
‘A theater kid,’ Ashley says.
‘But never stupid,’ George finishes.”
― L.C. Rosen, Camp

“They were all girls who grew up in sprawling houses, who'd never walked through the desert, who'd never stepped on a snake in the dry grass. They were girls who could not stand the rays of the Earth's sun unless it was shining through a tinted window.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti

“There's no such thing as Atticus Finch.'
I shrug. 'It'd be good if there was, though.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“My whole body wanted him, my entire soul too, and it hit me that an item on the Gay Agenda always should have been to find Albert. To find the guy who could set my spirit and sexuality on fire all at the same time.”
― Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda