All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.

We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?