Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

★★★★★

"He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face."

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

★★★★

"As she left my room, I knew I should shut up.  But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyways?  Well, I had that."

Love and Other Four-Letter Words by Carolyn Mackler

★★★

"Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole?  You've got to stop digging."

Shes Come Undone by Wally Lamb

★★

"Accept what people offer.  Drink their milkshakes.  Take their love."

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

★★★★

"Not everything has to have a point.  Some things just are."

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

★★★★

"She was elusive.  She was today.  She was tomorrow.  She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.  We did not know what to make of her.  In our minds we tried to pin her to a cord board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew."

"You'll know her more by your questions than by her answers.  Keep looking at her long enough.  One day you might see someone you know."

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

★★★★★

"We were the people who were not in the papers.  We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.  It gave us more freedom. 

We lived in the gaps between the stories."