“A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.”

“A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.”

“seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything”

“I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything”

“I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.”

“Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.”

“Kissing is just another way of talking expect without the words.”

“If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.”

“They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.”

“I could stay here forever interrupting our talking with kissing, interrupting our kissing with talking.”

“This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over.”

“He tastes like salted caramel and sunshine. Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. He tastes like nothing I've ever experienced, like hope and possibility and future”