I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.