It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.