No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.

Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?

I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

Very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother's-novels way, "Ah. Wemeet again." I turned my head, just slightly, and right there, practically on top of me, was theguy from the car dealership. He was wearing a red Mountain Fresh Detergent T-shirt - not just fresh: mountain fresh! - it proclaimed, and was smiling at me. "Oh,God," I said. "No, it's Dexter.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.