Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way

It's scary how easy promises were broken.

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

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?

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.