Annie: I wonder if when he talks dirty, he gets all…

“Do you ever think about how your name doesn't fit you? I mean, you're usually Kit in my head, but really I think your…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Instead of trying to watch it happen differently, why don't you try to not watch it at all?”

— Julie Buxbaum

“They seem to understand that the world is a big, diverse place, and that different is not the same thing as scary. It’s amazing…

— Julie Buxbaum

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

— Julie Buxbaum

“I think about what it would be like to kiss her, to touch my fingertip to her clavicle cluster, to not worry about our…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I think David was the one who kicked ass today,” I say. “Literally and figuratively,” David says. “I’ve never seen anything like it. He…

— 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, anything to…

— Julie Buxbaum

“ I hear my mom in my head, for just a second, since her voice has mostly evaporated—water to air, or maybe disintegrated, dirt to…

— Julie Buxbaum

“This is the opposite of love, I realize, when I look over and see my empty couch, see right through my imaginary companions. The…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I liked the feeling of her hand in mine.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“And now that I've been exposed to this feeling, perfect mouth against perfect mouth, the natural order of things, I wonder why people don't…

— Julie Buxbaum

“You’ve got it all wrong, man. It’s not like that,” Ethan says, puts his hands down and into his pocket. He pulls out his…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I'd love to go to Girl Dylan's part with you," I say, quickly accepting before Kit can rescind her invitation. If I didn't know…

— 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 expedition to…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Turns out grief not only morphs time, but space too. Somehow increases the distance between you and other people.”

— Julie Buxbaum