That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.