The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.