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“What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while. No wonder people liked admirers. They seemed, in some strange way,…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.”

— Robert Charles Wilson

“That’s a powerful thing, knowing you can reveal yourself to someone. It made me want to be a better person.”

— Roxane Gay

“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made…

— Jane Devin

“Sometimes you want people to -- not even put you first, or anything, but to just think about you a little, you know?”

— Riley Redgate

“I wish I would've learned earlier on to be myself and express what mattered to me and how I actually felt about things.”

— Melanie Shankle

“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.”

— Ransom Riggs

“I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your…

— David Levithan

“I could feel him paying attention to me with every inch of his being. He wanted to know me. My skin tightened with the…

— Martha Southgate

“... I somehow convinced myself that she knew how I felt, and that she probably felt the same way.”

— Rhona Cameron

“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked. Otherwise you took it for granted.”

— Nathan Lowell

“I could tell you, but you should never trust what someone says about themselves. It’s something you need to see for yourself.”

— Maria La Serra