Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.