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.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

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.

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

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.