It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within. Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.

Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.

Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said.