I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.

She doesn't feel like crying anymore.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.