Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I was pretty sure that whatever was buzzing against my thigh was not normal. For one thing, it was ringing. Ben dragged his mouth away from mine and mumbled a curse that was a little shocking and kind of hot. "Ignore it," he said. That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.

Screw you, John." "Sorry, Sylvie. Can't—they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.