To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie." Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?" "Sure. Can I have some money?

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.