I used to get startled by a noise and be thrown off for hours. Lore Quote #5ĪDHD medication helps give me more of a buffer against changes in my brain weather. I’m the kind of friend that’s fun when I’m there and forgettable when I’m not. I was the one they asked what shirts to wear on first dates, what were the best grocery stores to buy flowers to bring their mothers after they stayed out too late. And most of them even stuck with me when I came out (and those who didn’t, I chose to forget their names). What I don’t say, what I want to say: All my friends liked me. That’s worth my friends telling me that an analog watch makes me look about a thousand years old. It makes it more likely that they’ll call me him instead of her, and while him might not be quite right, it’s a whole sky closer to right than her. But I’ve also noticed that wearing a man’s watch signals something to people looking at me that they don’t even register. No one our age wears watches, and I know that. The memory of what this boy once showed me brushes against my neck. The sky ripples with threads of light like sun bowing on the bottom of a pool. A starfish with blue swallowtail wings rustles the stalks. The fish swims through that sky like it’s water. Then I take in that the sky is no longer daylight-gray, but purple, dark as the rind of an eggplant. First I take in what it is as it crosses the sky, a spotted fish with a feathered tail that looks blade sharp. They spooled away like they always did, showing me the dark underneath the water. Then a whole flock of blue-green and silver-blue wings, their backs shining like the surface of the lake. Then a hundred, each of them like a butterfly with its wings made of water. It fluttered through the air, a slice of lake-silver wafting like a leaf. Then I saw the first flicker of iridescent blue lift off the water.

I planned to help them hide out behind the rocks. These are spoiler-free, so don’t worry! Quote #1 Today, I’m presenting some of my favorite quotes from Lakelore that I found resonated with my experiences and/or were just beautiful to behold. You can find all the info about the book and my review in the first part. Hello again! This is part 2 of my tour stop for the Lakelore book tour hosted by Colored Pages.

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore