She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.

You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.

There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.