I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book person.” “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.