“I picked up the nearest weapon I could lay my hands on: a stapler. I lifted it, going for menacing. I admit it lacked a certain elegance, but hey. It was worth a shot. David placed his hand on my a...”

“You do love him," I said, and she swung her gaze back to me."I do." She smoothed her hand over her thighs, flattening imaginary wrinkles from the linen."Even though he's not your family."Saylor lau...”

“It was such a relief to be able to sob and have someone know all the reasons why.”

“And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you ne...”

“Ryan rolled his eyes. "Harper, you and David Stark have been circling each other since kindergarden.”

“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me li...”

“I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. Whats the tenth thing? ...”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think o...”

“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.”

“I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.”