"(So this is how it happens.  This is how girls change for boys.  I am simultaneously annoyed at myself and mildly amazed that I have the ability.)"
-Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw

"That's what boys do.  They leave, and when they come back, act like it's no big deal."
-The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood

"It was thrilling to hear him pronounce my name.  It doesn't matter how simply your name is; it's always a surprise to hear it spoken aloud for the first time by someone new, how the specific arrangement of syllables sounds coming out of their mouth...He said it like it was the first time he'd said 'Harriet' in his life.  Like it was a word he'd never thought about, or needed to know before, but that he would from now on."
-Dear Emma by Katie Heaney