135 Quotes by Julie Buxbaum

Money makes you weak because it tricks you into thinking you’re strong.

What I’ve never understood is why the boys are always shocked when they get their first glance of their newly made-up date, as if the girls weren’t already beautiful despite their penchant for androgynous clothing. Doscreenwriters think teenage boys lack all power of imagination?

Though I don’t feel like being hugged, I let her, because she’s my sister and my favorite person in the world and in a few hours she’ll be far, far away. “I love you, Little D. Just the way you are. So yeah, you can change, but don’t ever really change, okay?” “Okay,” I agree, though I have no idea what that means at all. “I’m scared, Miney.” “All the best people are,” she says.

I think that's what people do with the holidays. They wrap it up all neatly with a turkey and clever gifts and lots of eggnog and laugh and laugh, but at the end of the day there are always people missing from the table. And you have to either sit with those empty chairs and laugh, or you can choose not to come to the table at all. I would rather come to the table.

Whatever, it’s, like, so rude that he said all that stuff about us,” Willow says, pouting, though she doesn’t actually look upset. More like she’s posing for a selfie. Do any of them have real human emotions? Why do I suddenly feel like I’m surrounded by actors cast as teenagers? Like I’m the only one with a real and messy life.

I watch my classmates spilling out of school, in groups of two or three, their formations intimidatingly organic.Atoms into molecules. Like usual, I am alone.

Her eyebrows knit, and she leans forward farther over the wheel. I wonder how long I could watch her think without getting bored. I estimate at least thirty-nine minutes.

I let David fill our table up with conversation, his words like cartoon bubbles taking up the space I can’t seem to fill. Which is a long way of saying if he wants to talk prime numbers, so be it.

Tears are kind of like urine. There's only so long you can hold them in.