Stacie (Shy Book Nerd)

“People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

“The thing about guilt is that it doesn't make you want to fix yourself. It makes you shredded and hopeless and small. It makes you avoid the problem because you hate yourself so much you think you'll make it worse, and then you hate yourself more because you're not doing anything to help the people you hurt.”
― Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell

“Ryan Chase was my eighth-grade collage, aspirational and wide-eyed. But Max was the first bite of grilled cheese on a snowy day, the easy fit of my favorite jeans, that one old song that made it onto every playlist. Peanut-butter Girl Scout cookies instead of an ornate cake. Not glamorous or idealized or complicated. Just me.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Knowing what happens is different from knowing how it happens. And the getting there is the best part.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You