If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

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.

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.