22 Quotes by Anna-Marie McLemore

Nothing else in the world makes a man like that more afraid than five girls on their periods.

To the boys who get called girls,the girls who get called boys,and those who live outside these words.To those called names,and those searching for names of their own.To those who live on the edges,and in the spaces in between.I wish for you every light in the sky.

I may know how to nudge a man toward proposing, or how to hearten a tired mother. I may know who needs the sugar of violet pan dulce. But I don't know how to fold my heart into dough or lace vanilla sugar with my secrets.I don't know how to sprinkle a little of what is in me, like the color of the nonpareils.

That was probably another thing Aracely had almost asked ten times, opening her mouth and then hesitating. Why, to Miel, a pumpkin couldn't just be a pumpkin. A question Aracely knew better than to say out loud.