The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

Something invisible snapped inside her.

You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.