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61 " It means I’ll think about you all the time and wish you were close even when I’m not here. "
― Mary H.K. Choi , Emergency Contact
62 " They both likes pizza way more that their person. "
63 " It didn’t help that in AP English Lit, junior year, they’d read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” which was basically The Hunger Games except it was written in the forties and had a twist at the end. "
64 " She wondered if the rest of early adulthood would be like this — avoiding roommates, getting ripped off for bad fusion food, and the peculiar loneliness of being smothered by people she didn’t want to spend time with. "
65 " They both liked pizza way more than their person. "
66 " I want a world where everything lights up because I’m in it. "
67 " she realized sci-fi didn't have to be so . . . boy. "
68 " communicating with girls wasn’t hard. When they show interest, you show interest back by asking a ton of questions "
69 " Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. "
70 " I want a world where everything lights up because I'm in it. "
71 " To be the hero, you had to decide it was you. "
72 " Baby,' he said. Behind 'bae', Penny despised 'baby' as a thing for a grown adult woman to be called. It was so prescriptive. Like dressing sexy for Halloween. "
73 " It’s a privilege, and part of acknowledging that privilege is doing it honorably. Create diverse characters because you can. Especially ones that aren’t easy to write. A character that scares you is worth exploring. Yet if you breathe life into a character and it comes to you too easily—say you’re writing from the viewpoint of a black man in America and you’re not one? Think hard about where your inspiration is coming from. Are you writing stereotypes? Tropes? Are you fetishizing the otherness? Whose ideas are you spreading? Really consider how you transmit certain optics over others. Think about how much power that is. "
74 " Hell really was other people. "
75 " It’s fucking art, man,” he said, scowling. “You don’t choose it. It chooses you. If you waste that chance, your talent dies. That’s when you start dying along with it. "
76 " Yeah, exactly where a dad should be. Holding a firearm and warding off potential suitors until that daughter is of consenting age,” he said. “Which in my book is about forty-six. "
77 " I didn’t know that these flashes of information were even thoughts. Until I did. And that they belonged to me. It was my voice talking to my self except I didn’t have to make a sound. "
78 " You’ve got to understand that not everybody’s going to be your kind of person. They’re not going to be completely satisfactory or meet your myriad of qualifications. "
79 " Uh...What psycho sets their texts to preview mode? (Mallory) "
80 " As cool as glaucoma and lung cancer. Penny had never had a cigarette in her life, and if they did smoke together Penny would probably have a coughing fit that lasted forever and ended on an audible fart. "