“And even though I had freckles and red hair and almost killed Grandma Bramhall, I danced like I didn’t.” — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“Already in love with her, huh?” she said. I jerked my eyes away and thought about it. But there it was, that tiny heart… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things get broken and people make mistakes. It's just what happens. And then, if you're lucky, they get fixed again, before it's too… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“At the door, I looked back at all those people I didn’t know and thought about how small your heart is but how big of a space it takes up. And how, even though you can’t see it, that heart space grows so quietly across a room or up some stairs into someone else’s living room, that even if you… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share
“I hadn’t actually come out and asked him to pick us up, so when he said, “All right, give me twenty minutes, I gotta… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“Love doesn't always mean rings and veils and walks down the aisle. Sometimes love means broken windows and broken hearts, and not being able… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“I folded up that last bit of hope and put it away on the top shelf of my life.” — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“I lifted my hand and pulled the blue paper cap back a little, until a piece of my red fell out, then I reached… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“But what are you supposed to do now? I mean, how are you supposed to act normal?” Mike looked at me, his blueberry eyes… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“Without lifting her head, she said, “I want you to get out.” And right then I was sure: M had been born with the mean gene. It’s the way we come out , Toby said. Maybe M being mean wasn’t any different than Mike and Chad being gay, or me having freckles. Mean was just the way she came out.… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share
“ Draco dormiens nunquam titillandu. A sleeping dragon is never to be tickled.” — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“I missed Chad in the same way that I missed my mom now: always.” — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“You watch. Someday you’re going to love those freckles.” “No I’m not.” Mr. John leapt through the air after that, feet flailing and his back arched too far away from his knees: his worst one yet. After both of our ankles got splashed again, Grandma Bramhall picked up my chin and said, “You are as beautiful as your mom was,”… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share
