..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

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.

Always do what you're afraid to do.

...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him. "Not seriously." "Seriously," I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn't know. Gideon put his hand on my leg. "What's your strong point, then?" "Goats," I told him. "I am excellent with goats.

She doesn't feel like crying anymore.