Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

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