I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.

Because I’m the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.

That’s different,” Levi smiled at her warmly. “Ypu don’t rock that Little Red Riding Hood vibe. You’re scary.” Reagan grinned like the Big Bad Wolf.

He turned around, suddenly concerned. “Are you pregnant? Are you gay? I’d rather you were gay than pregnant. Unless you’re pregnant. Then we’ll deal. Whatever it is, we’ll deal. Are you pregnant?

You can’t make me do anything. I’m an adult. And I’m much stronger than you.””Upper body strength isn’t everything; I have wiles.””Not really.””Yes, I do. I’m a woman. Women have wiles.””Some women. It’s not like every woman is born wily.””If I don’t have wiles, she said, “how come I can get you to do most...

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room.

Hello smart girl. Would you like to talk to me about Great Expectations?

—No me gustas, Park —repitió Eleanor en un tono que, por un instante, sonó como si hablara en serio—. Yo… —su voz casi se esfumó— creo que vivo por ti.Park cerró los ojos y dejó caer la cabeza contra la almohada.—Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando...

I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.

Because all her feelings for him – hot and beautiful in her heart – turned to gobbledygook in her mouth.

I love you more than I hate everything else.

I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.

I didn’t know love could leave the lights on all the time.

Can’t you just like a girl who likes you back?”None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

The first time he’d held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.

I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn’t be death.

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

I’m extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn’t have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment.

I’m sorry about yesterday,” she said.He hung on to his straps and shrugged. “Yesterday happens.

He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he’d imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it – so he’d have this moment, under her hair. He ran his fingertips along the chain and settled the pendant on her...

Words are very powerful,” Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. “And they take on more power the more they’re spoken…. “The more they’re said and read and written,in specific, consistent combinations.

I love you. I love you both so much.””To the moon and back?” Alice asked.”Oh my God,” Georgie said, “so much farther.

When I wake up on Sunday Mornings – late, you always let me sleep in – I come looking for you, and you’re in the backyard with dirt on your knees and two little girls spinning around you in perfect orbit. And you put their hair in pigtails and you let them wear whatever madness...

When Eleanor was a little girl, she’d thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.Not a princess – princesses are just pretty. Eleanor’s mother was beautiful. She was tall and stately, with broad shoulders and an elegant waist. All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people’s. Like...

I know the world is flat now, I’m not going back.

He’s mad at me.””For what?””For not being like him.”Eleanor looked dubious. “Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?””Basically.

You are very kind,” he said. “Very wrong, but very kind.

I’m interested. It’s like you’ve got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you…

He’d stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.

I love you and I need you to be happy. And you’re not happy. So I look for what in your life is making you unhappy.

I don’t like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I’ve never heard a phone ring before and I don’t know what’s supposed to happen next. Hello?

If they’d given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.

It’s a chance to wake up new.

I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me… Cather.

Siempre. Ese es el máximo tipo de roto. El tipo de daño del cual nunca te recuperas.

I didn’t know someone could love me like this,” she said. “Could love me and love me and love me without…needing space.”Lincoln wasn’t asleep. He rolled on top of her.”There’s no air in space,” he said.

His eyes were that colour you can’t see in the rainbow. Indigo.

I think you mother has Asperger’s,” Georgie had said to Neal.”They didn’t get Asperger’s int he ’50s.””I’m just saying maybe she’s on the the spectrum.””She’s just a math teacher.

It’s more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one—and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you’re right.

You don’t get to choose,” Lincoln said. “It’s just happening.

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

Sei la ragazza più intelligente che abbia mai conosciuto, la più spiritosa, e mi stupisci in tutto quello che fai. Vorrei poterti dire che sono queste le ragioni per cui mi piaci, perché questo proverebbe che sono un essere umano evoluto… Invece credo che c’entri anche il fatto che hai i capelli rossi e le...

If Levi were a dog, he’d be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he’d be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.

Cath couldn’t control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn’t going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.