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1 " Quinn is somehow balancing all three Dole Whip floats in her hands. 'Should we eat these in the Tiki Room? Or just sit out here?''You can't not eat these in the Tiki Room,' Kat says. 'I can only enjoy pinapple soft serve when I'm being serenaded by animatronic parrots. "
― Amy Spalding , We Used to Be Friends
2 " The city has a reputation for constant sunshine and warmth, but once the sun is down at night, LA remembers it’s secretly a desert under its newer identity. The cool night air doesn’t care what midday was like. "
― Amy Spalding , The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles)
3 " I'm glad you came over Dev. Things have been pretty shitty lately.""Not the same as always?""Guess I don't even know anymore. "
― Amy Spalding , The Reece Malcolm List
4 " You think you know how you'll react to anything and then a boy shows up and kisses you, and some of that just vanishes. "
5 " Normally it makes me really happy to see, not just that they’re in love but that love like that is possible. Right now, though, I just kind of want to throw water on them. "
6 " No, I wasn’t in love with clothes, but maybe I was in love with how clothes made me feel. I was designing how other people saw me, and that felt powerful. "
7 " So how'd you know you were gay?""How'd you know you weren't? It was probably the same way."He laughs as we get into his car, "Touché. "
8 " He’s wearing a totally normal T-shirt from the mall or whatever, but it hangs on him like the shirt has fulfilled its sole mission in life. "
9 " (All truly great dresses have pockets.) "
10 " So many people are so good at so many things. Right now I'm lucky we're supposed to smile during the curtain call, because I'm so happy this is the thing I'm good at. "
11 " Abbs, I’m a feminist,” he says. “I’m equally scared of all feelings. "
12 " It's strange how in just a couple of months, one person can become so much of your world.Which means when your world's been expanded, when that person's gone, it feels like mass extinction. "
13 " The secret about falling in love is how you can do it a million times over with the same person, when the person is the right one. "
14 " After all, the boys added up—Tony, Bryce, Javier, and I guess Logan, too—didn’t come close to this. There are breakup tunes and lovesick ballads and celebrating-that-he-was-gone anthems. It was easy to believe that romance was the only heartache out there. "
15 " Shouldn't we just admit the friendship had, somehow, run its course?Sure,we might have moments where things feel just like before, but that doesn't erase the long stretches of time, when they don't "
16 " The thing I love about photography is that for just a moment, you can make everyone else look at the world the way you see it. "
17 " I like how I look, usually, but people - especially people on the internet - can be so mean when you're fat. As if fat makes you stupid or dirty or irresponsible. As if fat makes you anything other than...fat. "
18 " It’s incredible how many things can be interpreted as I miss you and want you back and also deeply want to have sex with you when the recipient is desperately seeking that meaning. "
19 " I’ve just realized that I’m probably doomed at love. Because I’m pretty sure I’m not the heroine. I don’t even think I’m in my own story. "
20 " I’d never really pictured myself dating anyone, it’s true, but I guess I still had this little corner in my mind tucked away even from myself about what it would be like anyway. Maybe you can’t help but lock away a little hope, no matter how improbable that possibility might be. "
