Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

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.

We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

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.