8 Quotes by Alecia Whitaker

Obsessing over a boy makes the time fly.

That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.

Some people live life asking for forgiveness instead of permission.

In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.

His green-flecked brown eyes twinkle, and we laugh together, easy and light. He opens the door for me, and I say goodbye, floating over to where my family waits in our Winnebago. And I can't tell you if my feet actually touch the ground, because at this very moment, this Bird, well, she flies.

Mother Maybelle, have mercy, we've just been discovered.

And although I wish his heart were pure gold, I guess I’ve always known that it’s more of the brass variety.

It was awful,” I tell Luke at his locker. It’s on the other side of the hall and I really feel like the air is cleaner over here or something. I almost suffocated trying to stuff my book bag into my own locker, squeezed right between Kimi and her voluptuousness and Wolf and his sexual-awakening-me-ness.