It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.