We think that we are invincible because we are.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

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

And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.

You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.

I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there and open all my presents, and talk about how my parents neglect me, and then maybe the Duke will give me some of her presents because she feels so bad about how my mom doesn't love me.