Siena

“You're making me nervous by being so weird.
But your weirdness is what I like about you.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Year of Secret Assignments

“Excelsior," Gansey said bleakly.
Blue asked, "What does that even mean?"
Gansey looked over his shoulder at her. He was once more, just a little bit closer to the boy she'd seen in the churchyard.
"Onward and upward.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it.

"Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?"

"Lydia," he said. "I apologize.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Year of Secret Assignments

“Early on, when they'd just started home schooling together, he'd written a note on the margin of her page: "What's your star sign?"

She'd turned to him, "What does my star sigh?" and he'd seen how much she'd liked the idea that she owned a star, and that it sighed; he'd seen in her eyes that her mind was rushing through the possible words that it could sigh.

It's true that his handwriting was bad: the "n" looked a lot like an "h."

But when he's crossed it out and written "sign," underlining the "n" three times, a vagueness had wandered onto her face, and she'd thought for a moment, then said, "Pisces," and smiled.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, A Corner of White