Oranges don’t have nipples.”
-- Sophie (One)

Importance: This quote from Sophie represents the opening of the novel, in the most important setting of the novel, and one of the symbols of tangelos. Sophie says this to Jamie as they shop for snacks at Target before going to Rossum’s campaign office. Albertalli and Saeed open the novel with this sentence to set the sexual and flirtatious tone right from the start. On the next page, Jamie sees Maya and then causes the tangelo stand to fall apart, causing an explosion of tangelos all over Target. This literally and metaphorically colorful beginning is also the moment the two teeangers meet. At the end of the novel, back in Target, their friend Kevin makes a joke about a tangelo explosion when they sneak off to make out in a dressing room, proving the significance of this opening symbol.

Let’s just say I’m...
-- Jamie (One)