A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend (edit title/settings)

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• Julia: Add a description of this character.
• Heather
• Ollie
• Oliver
• Jon
• Lissa
• Amy
• Maggie
• Himiko
• Cass
• Hiromasa
• Mr. Vaichon
• Gianna
• Gwen

Quotes edit see section history

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• “Our Town isn't supposed to have ninjas!”

• “My anxiety and bewilderment and confusion blew out of my head and there was nothing but that wow, her smell, and the touch of her skin on my skin.”

• “Didn't want to act like I'd been hit with a box of bricks, didn't want to stop caring about everything outside our little dyad, didn't want to care that much and hurt that much. Well, box of bricks, meet Cassandra.”

• “Me, I moved on, measuring things out to sixteenths of inches and repeating my measurements. That calmed me. It took me to a world where you could be assured that as long as you followed the directions conscientiously, things would come out all right, and there wasn't any ambiguity about what you were allowed to do and what you weren't allowed to do. That was much more comforting than anything that existed out here in the real world”

  Cass

• “Sometimes if you stare at a word for long enough, wondering if you've spelled it right, the word starts looking completely mysterious to you. Like there's something wrong with it. Like it doesn't even mean what you thought it mean.”

  Cass

• “I was one of those people who stumbled into things, who followed whims and took side roads, instead of finding some goal to pursue forward with unflagging commitment. I didn't even know what I wanted to be when I grew up, what I wanted to major in when I went to college. And I had always been blithely convinced that if I followed the side roads for long enough I'd trip over something wonderful, that thing you never know you're looking for until you land on it that suddenly makes the universe a much bigger place than it ever had been before.”

  Cass

• “Despite what you may have heard, people have sex all the time with people they don't love, or particularly care about, or sometimes can't even stand. So why in the world do people say that it's JUST friends, like it doesn't matter as much, if you're not having sex? Real friendship is true and forever and with all your heart. It's not Relationship Lite.”

  Maggie

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• California
• Oklahoma
• Our Town
• Chicago
• New Mexico
• Missouri

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Emily Horner (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

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• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Homosexuality › Fiction
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance