He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it’s up to you to

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

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