16 Quotes by Zan Romanoff

People have this idea of what fangirls look like, and she’s not it. She can get away with so much pretending.

Only she and Jes actually know what happened on that street last night. After so many years of keeping secrets about him, she has one with him. She isn’t ready to let go of that yet. The keeping is too delicious, still.

Jes always seemed too obvious. Even girls who didn’t care about Fever Dream knew he was the most beautiful one.

She loves the idea that love can be kept like a secret, that it can grow up through the cracks between things and take you by surprise. That it can be tender and powerful, forbidden and flourishing.

Looking at him, she understands instinctively that beauty and danger are twin edges of the same knife.

You don’t have to rebel to grow up,” her mother says. “I always thought you understood that.

Sometimes fandom functions like an echo chamber.

Plus, it’s not like she would admit to what happened last night even if her mom was here. They just don’t talk about stuff like this, really: boys, bands, feelings.

Whoever she ends up with will walk into her life midway through, and she’ll have to figure out how to make room for him in the middle of all her clutter and mess. She’ll have to figure out how much of herself she can show him without scaring him off.