"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.