I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

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.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.