People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.