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41 " So, I keep thinking about the idea of secret identities. Do you ever feel locked into yourself? I'm not sure if I'm making sense here. I guess what I mean is that sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me. "
― Becky Albertalli , Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)
42 " I HAVE TO MEET HIM. I don’t think I can keep this up. I don’t care if it ruins everything. I’m this close to making out with my laptop screen. "
43 " That awkward moment when you realize you’ve been making gay jokes in front of your gay kid for the last 17 years. "
44 " What's a dementor?"I mean, I can't even. "Nora, you are no longer my sister.""So it's some Harry Potter thing," she says. "
45 " I bring the leftovers to rehearsal, and Ms. Albright lets us have a cake picnic on the stage. And by cake picnic, I mean drama kids hunched over the box like vultures shoveling cake by the fistful. "
46 " Maar juist daarom was het makkelijker. Ik moet een deel van mezelf nog uitvinden. En ik weet niet of het allemaal past. Hoe het bij mij past. Het is een nieuwe versie van mij. Ik had iemand nodig die daarin mee kon gaan. "
47 " Hoe langer je ergens mee rondloopt, hoe moeilijker het wordt om erover te praten. "
48 " I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. [...] And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again "
49 " Was ist denn ein Dementor?"Also echt, ich fasse es nicht. "Nora, du bist nicht mehr meine Schwester.""Ist also irgendein Harry-Potter-Zeugs", sagte sie. "
50 " People really are like house with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it's a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other. "
51 " He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to. "
52 " Sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me. "
53 " I’m too busy trying not to be in love with someone who isn’t real. "
54 " Really, though, there are only two kinds of weather: hoodie weather and weather where you wear a hoodie anyway. "
55 " I fall a little bit in love with everyone. "
56 " And you know what? You don’t get to say it’s not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be—this is mine. I’m supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it. "
57 " The closest thing I’ve ever had to a journal is probably you. "
58 " People are shameless when it comes to cake. It's a beautiful thing to see. "
59 " Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy. "
60 " There's something about you that makes me want to open up, and that's slightly terrifying to me. "