Paperback Crush Quotes

“To baby boomers wailing that the internet is turning innocent kids into vicious bullies - au contraire, we've been monsters all along.”
― Gabrielle Moss, Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

“The Caitlin books, which ran as a set of three trilogies (Loving, Promises, and Forever) published between 1985 and 1988, chart a decade or so in the life of the beautiful, terrible poor little rich girl as she repeatedly breaks up and makes up with her first love, Montana-based hunk Jed (Jed!), rides many horses, drives many luxury cars, is emotionally neglected by her family, accidentally lets an elementary schooler eat poison (it’s okay, he survives, everyone calm down!), gets trapped in a mine, reconnects with her long-lost father, goes to college, is forced against her will to become a successful model, gets trapped in a barn fire, is forced against her will to become the head of a successful mining company, and is the subject of numerous unsuccessful plots by evil men who wish to “ruin” her.”
― Gabrielle Moss, Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

“But overall, first love tends to yield ten dramatic personal ultimatums delivered in a Wendy’s parking lot for every one unforgettable evening spent looking at the stars. It’s a bad deal.”
― Gabrielle Moss, Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

“Shelving Jane Austen novels and getting covered in vegetable oil and writhing around on the hood of a Jaguar - are they really so different?”
― Gabrielle Moss, Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction