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1 " This moment of recognition reflected back at me in her face. It's not even something I can see, but something I feel. It's not my mom and my dad or my brothers. It's me. My own confusion, my own fear. She could look like a stranger to me, and I'd still feel it as plainly. "
― Emma Lord , You Have a Match
2 " ...the issue isn't so much what I want to be, but whether or not I can be it without hurting everyone else in the process. "
― Emma Lord , Tweet Cute
3 " It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back. "
4 " There’s a ghost of a smirk on Pepper’s face, but she’s so close, I can hear it more than I can see it. “Pepper and Jack,” she corrects me. Then her eyes light up. “Pepperjack. "
5 " Eh, it's all fun and games until they swore up and down they were teaching me how to say 'good morning' in Tagalog and I ended up telling Mickey to 'go eat shit.''Even in the depths of my possibly bottomless self-pity, that gets a laugh out of me.Leo knocks his shoulder into mine, another reminder of how fast we've filled up the air between us. 'Yeah, yeah, kumain ng tae. "
6 " You can’t just casually tell someone you carry caramel sauce around and walk away like that’s a normal thing,” I call at her retreating back. “What other emergency dessert condiments do you have stashed in your bag? "
― Emma Lord
7 " Most of the things I could wish for I can't have. It's big stuff, like how I wish Poppy were still here and we weren't selling Bean Well. Or medium stuff, like I didn't worry so much about where I stand with Leo and Connie, or I wasn't one ping in my parents' inbox away from getting busted for skipping out on summer school. Or stuff that wells up in me from some place I can usually keep quiet--I wish I were old enough to do whatever I wanted, to go out and take photographs all over the world instead of the same sleepy suburb over and over and over again.I wish I didn't feel like a problem my parents had to solve. "
8 " he doesn’t like me the way I like him. And if he did once, he doesn’t anymore. "
9 " You know, for someone named Pepper, you're pretty salty about losing. "
10 " Are you a witch?” I ask, reaching in and taking a bite of one. It’s like Monster Cake, the Sequel—freaking Christmas in my mouth. I already want more before I’ve even managed to chew. "
11 " Approximately eighteen hours after my kiss with Jack Campbell—my kiss with Jack Campbell—I am sitting at a card table with Pooja in the front entrance of the school behind our veritable army of baked goods, overanalyzing the situation to such an absurd degree, it is now less of a kiss and more of an FBI investigation. "
12 " This may have started with a war, but whatever it is now, there isn't an end in sight - not as long as we're both still winning. "
13 " I won't think any less of you if you break it "
14 " You can't just casually tell someone you carry caramel sauce around and walk away like thats a normal thing "
15 " A stolen day. The kind of day that ends too fast but stays with you much longer. "
16 " It feels like there’s a fire in every corner of my brain, and instead of putting any of them out, I’m just frozen and watching it spread across the room. "
17 " Bluebird:How about this? If you don't show me I won't like you anymoreWolf: That logic is cruel but sound. You asked for thisWolf:macncheeseme.comBluebird:Is this...is this an app for finding emergency mac and cheeseWolf:Life Spider-Man, I am only looking out for the citizens of New York "
18 " I’m a perfectionist, through and through, and even at five, I had no interest in embarrassing myself. "
19 " I don’t want this. But the problem is I do, and I don’t, and my feelings are still way too tangled for me to be able to say I don’t want to spend my whole future in this place when I also can’t imagine a future without it. It’s dumb, but I wish for a stupid, childish second I could just stay like this forever. "
20 " If you learn to capture a feeling, it’ll always be louder than words. "
