Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.

I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

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

I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.