Always do what you're afraid to do.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

She doesn't feel like crying anymore.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

We should not accept an evil we can change.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126

Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

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