She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

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.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.