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“It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.”

Book:How to Love

Source: How to Love

“She stood awkwardly for another endless moment -- a total and obvious outsider, even though this was her house where she lived. It felt like she didn't belong anywhere. It felt like she probably never would.”

Home Loneliness Isolation Belonging Outsider Not Belonging

Book:Top Ten

Source: Top Ten

“A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.”

Love Home Song Future Lonely Young Adult Contemporary Fiction

Book:How to Love

Source: How to Love

“She didn't understand how other people did it, how they just strolled right up to strangers and started conversations -- how they made themselves into people strangers would ever want to meet. She wasn't shy, not exactly. She was afraid.”

Loneliness Isolation Shyness Being Afraid Social Anxiety Making Friends

Book:Top Ten

Source: Top Ten

“The thing about hiding out like this was that it did get boring, every once in a while. It occurred to Gabby to wonder if possibly she was missing something great. For all her bravado, it bothered her sometimes, that she couldn't make herself do what seemed to come so naturally to everyone else.”

Loneliness Isolation Social Anxiety Missing Out

Book:Top Ten

Source: Top Ten

“If you liked being alone all the time, that would be one thing. But I don't actually think you do. I think you're just letting yourself be scared.”

Loneliness Scared Alone Isolation

Book:Top Ten

Source: Top Ten

“It occurred to her to wonder if this was what growing up meant, to continuously find yourself in situations that you didn't feel remotely prepared to handle.”

Life Growing Up

Book:Top Ten

Source: Top Ten

“I didn't know how to let you go.”

Book:99 Days

Source: 99 Days

“Wait, I almost shouted, but didn’t, and that would be my burden to bear. Instead, I stood on the curb and I watched him disappear, lights fading in the distance like waking up from a dream.”

Book:How to Love

Source: How to Love

“The hideous thing is this: I want to forgive him. Even after everything, I do. A baby before my 17th birthday and a future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but somehow forgot.”

Love Teenage Pregnancy

Book:How to Love

Source: How to Love

“"Hey, Sawyer?" "Yeah? What’s up?" " I love you, you know that?" "I-…I do know that, actually. But- Jesus, Reena.” He laughs a bit, disbelieving. “It’s nice to hear.” It’s nice to say, I want to tell him, then realize I’ve got a whole country to say it. I’ve got a whole continent. I’ve got the whole world.”

Love Sawyer Reena

Book:How to Love

Source: How to Love

“Do you miss her? I blinked. Did I what? This was my best friend since preschool we were talking about, the girl whose snack and math homework I’d shared since before I had memorized my own phone number, who’d buried her cold, annoying little feet underneath me during a thousand different movie nights and showed me how to use a tampon. She’d grown up in my kitchen, she was my shadow- self—or I was hers— and Sawyer wanted to know if I missed her? What the hell kind of question was that?”

Friendship Friends

Book:How to Love

Source: How to Love