Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.