People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.

There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.