Never eat anything bigger than your ass.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

..we’ll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

Our kiss was electric and soft,and tentative and certain,terrifying and exactly right.I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.We were warm and shivering,and young and ancient,and alive.I was thinking,...

Sometimes it’s a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Always do what you’re afraid to do. …I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Always do what you’re afraid to do.

Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

I will prove myself strong, when they think I am sick.I will prove myself brave, when they think I am weak.

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage...

Another thing that happens in the movies: They all have these dramatic crises where everything looks bleak and you think the couple will never, ever get back together. But then they realize they can’t live...

They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn’t play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out...

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

I know they’re not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it’s tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like...

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he’s done something awful – he probably has.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are...

Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed” – because he likes you anyway. He’ll tolerate your junk. Roo: You have lots of friends. Noel: No, I don’t. Roo: You do. You know everyone...

Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that’s not exactly right

It’s just what you think, not the truth.

For Gat with everything, everything. Cady

Roo: What’s your definition of popularity?Hutch: I used to think people were popular because they were good-looking, or nice, or funny, or good at sports. Roo: Aren’t they?Hutch: I’d think, if I could just be...

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.

I think it was the institution…I was trying to master it.

You have some balls.”Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment…

My boyfriend is named Percocet,” I say. “We’re very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.

She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”–because he likes you anyways. He’ll...

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I’m a hag...

My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts...

The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with unresolved anger, the guy with a chip on his shoulder, the guy who’s...

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

I can’t forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen,” I said. “I’m a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become...

We can’t know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box – a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for...

Gideon laughed. “I like to be direct.””Okay,” I said. “But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages.” “I doubt it.””Human interaction is not my strong point,” I told...

It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.

If you don’t want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

And I want you to have it.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you’ve got them,” said Mr. Sutton. “You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.