“I walked around the counter and straight into his white T-shirt. Then we stood like that, him holding my red head, and me listening to the part of his chest where his heart used to be.” — 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… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
