You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)

by Dustin Thao

“Don’t worry,” Sam says. “I can make you another one. I can make you a thousand more.”

I'm so glad this quote by Sam is his most popular, because it is one of my personal favorites. I can't imaging something sweeter than a boy promising to make you not one but thousands of paper cherry blossoms, which becomes a motif that appears throughout the book, representing pieces of him left after his death. This moment is partly inspired by something in high school. During senior year, one of my best friends found an origami rose on her desk. It wasn't until weeks later that the new boy from school told her it was him. They ended up dating for a few years. In many of my interviews, I mention the same best friend who I thought of during the writing process. I'm thinking of her now as I'm looking at these popular quotes :)