It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away."A cute idiot," Ally corrects me."That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist.