I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.