There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126

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

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

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.

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.