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“She was not the best cook, so she did not cook at all—it was important to know your limitations and not waste time attempting to do poorly what you could have someone else do for you.”
― Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

“This was the trouble with emigration—it dismantled the patriarchy. Because really, what did Assunta, or any woman, need a husband for, when she did every goddamn thing herself?”
― Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

“it is the moral responsibility of the incompetent to identify their own weaknesses and not accept positions of power.”
― Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was...
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Why fit in when you're born to stand out?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“History, huh?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue