I’m sorry Penelope.” “Don’t waste my time with sorries,Simon.If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other’s toes,we’ll never have time to be friends.

Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.

How could it be possible that there were that many nerve endings all in one place?

It’s a chance to wake up new.

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...

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.

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...

I’m fine,” [her dad] said gently. “Back on the horse, Cath.”What’s the horse?’ she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. ‘Jogging? Working too much?”Living,’ he said, a little too loud. ‘Life’s the...

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.

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

He looked up at her and smiled crookedly, holding out a few sheets of paper. “Will you read this? i think maybe it sucks. or maybe it’s awesome. it’s probably awesome. Tell me it’s awesome,okay?...

Emergency dance party–go away.

It’s coming between us right now.

Aquella tarde, en clase de Historia, Eleanor reparó en que Park mordisqueaba el lápiz para concentrarse. Y en que la chica que tenía detrás (cómo se llama, Kim, la de las tetas grandes y la...

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.

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

Cath wasn’t trying to make new friends here. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude.

Seriously, why aren’t you on drugs?” Cath walked past her out of the room.”Are you a licensed psychiatrist? Or do you just play one on TV?””I’m on drugs,” Reagan said. “They’re a beautiful thing.

She was tired of being the one who cried.

There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy.

Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her...

It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.

There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel...

You flirt with everything.” She could tell that her eyes were popping– her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. “You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

It’s still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.

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...

You look like you. Only with the volume turned up.

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn’t hold on to them.

Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.

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

She is a good girl,” Park said. “You don’t even know her.” His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. “Go,” he said sternly. “Go play basketball or something.””Good girls don’t dress like boys,”...

I always get lost in the library,’ he said, ‘no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it’s getting to know...

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.

The world turned itself into a better place around him.

Cath probably should have texted Abel by now, just to tell him that she’d made it – but she wanted to wait until she felt more breezy and nonchalant. You can’t take back texts. If...

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

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.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. “Cather…” Back up to his eyes.”You know that I’m falling in love with you, right?

You don’t know when you’re twenty-three.You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going...

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...

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping.

How’d you know he was the one?””I didn’t know. I don’t think either of us knew.”Heather rolled her eyes. “Neal knew — he proposed to you.””It’s not like that,” Georgie said. “You’ll see. It’s more...

There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.” Professor Piper

I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I’m not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.

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.

Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody’s teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross...

—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...