My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.

He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.

Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.