High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.