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

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.