“ What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow! Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And prop… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help m… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ There’s something different about her. I realize it’s her breasts—they’re huge. I see that she’s stuffed her bikini top with wet balls of sand.“What is that?” I say. “Scottie. Your suit.”She shields h… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am. Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ We don’t treat each other very well, I suppose. Even from the start. It was as though we had the seven-year itch the day we met. The day she went into a coma, I heard her telling her friend Shelley th… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ Reina sounds awesome,” Sid says. “I’m digging her more and more.”“Were you there?” I ask. “Have you seen one of these movies?”“No,” Scottie says.“Scottie,” Alex says, kicking Sid in the ribs. “Reina i… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ TIA OR TARA has stopped applying makeup to my wife’s face and is looking at Scottie with disapproval. The light is hitting this woman’s face, giving me an opportunity to see that she should perhaps be… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ You’ve already said that,” Alex says. “Why should I go?”“You’re the only person I have,” I say. “And I want us all to be together. It will be good for us.”“Oh, so now I’m back in the picture again.”“A… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I’d like you to come to Kauai with me,” I say. “And Scottie. I think it would be good to get her away from the hospital for a day. We can leave in the morning, find him, and be home tomorrow night. If… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ We need to get home and put some ointments and ice on the stings. Vinegar will make it worse, so if you thought Giraffe Boy could pee on you, you’re shit out of luck.”She agrees as if prepared for thi… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I hope she can’t tell that I’m appraising her and that I’m completely worried by what I see. She’s excitable and strange. She’s ten. What do people do during the day when they’re ten? She runs her fin… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I look in the jewelry box where Joanie found the drugs. She showed me a miniature Ziploc bag filled with a clear, hard rock.“What is this?” I said. I never did drugs, so I had no idea. Heroin? Cocaine… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, ‘He doesn’t love you. I love you. Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ I drift off for a while. I don't know how long, but when I open my eyes, the Oscars are still on and Alex tells me that Sid has gone and this makes me a little sad. Whatever the four of us had is over… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ Say goodbye to your mom.”Scottie pauses, then keeps going.“Scottie.”“Bye!” she yells.I grab her arm. I could yell at her for wanting to leave, but I don’t. She pulls her arm out of my grasp. I look up… Kaui Hart Hemmings
“ We walk until there aren't more houses, all the way to the part of the beach where the current makes the waves come in then rush back out so that the two waves clash, water casting up like a geyser. W… Kaui Hart Hemmings
