I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer