Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.

Sometimes “No” is the kindest word.

He wasn’t used to people saying no, and Eby felt sorry for him, the way she’d always felt sorry for those who had everything and it still wasn’t enough.

Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.