Simon Sort of Says: (Newbery Honor Book)

by Erin Bow

I think there’s never going to be a now. I think there’s always going to be a before, and an after.

a note on lockdowns I said we couldn’t get out, back then. The worse truth is: We didn’t try. We did what they told us to do. We did what we had practiced. We waited. We hid. We sheltered in place.