Julie Buxbaum

“I’ve never seen you so animated. It’s kind of adorable,” Theo says.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“the only viable option is to Sherlock the shit out of this.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“David Drucker has a theory about my metaphorical radio waves.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“Theo: He’s telling everyone you’re “like a breath of fresh air.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“your Vans should be fine. they’re cool, by the way.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“I wish we could keep on forgetting to remember ourselves.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“which means her mouth cost five times more than my car.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“noir. In those dreams, I stand up after passionate sex with”

— Julie Buxbaum

“Her hair isn't curly but it isn't straight either. It hangs in repetitive alternating commas.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“You kind of have to admire her commitment,” Dri says. “Banging for feminism.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“I smile, because if it's not exactly a joke, it is sort of related to one.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“My mother is just one of those people you miss, even when she's sitting right in front of you.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“Miney says: “Mom is a closet weirdo, and dad is a closet normal, and that’s why they work.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“I'm not sure why I've always assumed that the responsibility of a conversation falls on me.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“My fear of saying something stupid often leaves me saying almost nothing at all.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“And pretty,” my mom says. Pretty doesn’t fit Kit. It’s too small a word. Like her name. “Not pretty,” I correct her.…

— Julie Buxbaum

“How's things, buddy?" Trey asks after we run through a few finger-warming exercises. I realize this is what people call small talk.…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Right. So what don't get is why everyone is mad at me, instead of realising that I am the one who has…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I mean , I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay.…

— Julie Buxbaum

“When it is our turn to check in, the woman behind the counter smiles brightly at us despite the cruel hour. I…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I like to think of my people as mute optimists - leave the elephant alone and, eventually, perhaps with the help of…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Though everyone I knew seemed to be either settling down or looking to settle down, I was never on a deep-sea fishing…

— Julie Buxbaum

“now, suddenly, I want to be anywhere but here. No, the truth is I don’t want to be anywhere at all, because…

— Julie Buxbaum

“You look beautiful even when you cry. I mean, not that you don’t look beautiful when you’re happy. Of course, you’re beautiful…

— Julie Buxbaum

“There's a famous expression that if you've met one person with autism, then... you've met one person with autism. So you met…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Did you know that it’s not mathematically impossible for two snowflakes to be identical? They’re made up of a quintillion molecules that…

— Julie Buxbaum

“This is a dream. It has to be, because the three of them can’t be SN, and I’ve had dreams like this…

— Julie Buxbaum

“If that moment was a Russian nesting doll, I was paying attention to the smallest figurine. I did not see all the…

— Julie Buxbaum

“That's the blessing and the curse of loss: You don't get to choose what falls within the inevitable dissolution of recollection or…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Just so you know, I realize that what happened is not in any way okay, but I think we're going to have…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I try to think of other things. David’s hand in mine. That was nice. Innocent, friendly hand-holding. I think of his tape…

— Julie Buxbaum

“As I leave my building, Robert wolf-whistles at me, long and drawn out. Probably inappropriate of my doorman, but I appreciate the…

— Julie Buxbaum

“After the Locker Room Incident, again irrelevant to present circumstances, my father hung a leather punching bag in our basement and taught…

— Julie Buxbaum

“It was her idea to start texting Kit in the first place, and I have to admit now that I’ve started doing…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Who are you and what have you done with my daughter? One guy doesn’t like you and you come running home?” my…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I bump into a group of girls congregating around a locker. Jessica, Willow (who is notably the only Willow enrolled in our…

— Julie Buxbaum

“You want to kiss her, right?” “What?” I have lost track of our conversation. I was thinking about how if Kit called…

— Julie Buxbaum

“SN: how’s your day, Ms. Holmes? Me: Not bad. Yours? SN: good. been doing my homework in listicle form, because, you know,…

— Julie Buxbaum

“One of the few perks of the shit so monumentally hitting the fan is you discover who your real tribe is. It’s…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I miss the way he used to kiss my shoulder whenever it was bare and he was nearby. I miss how he…

— Julie Buxbaum