“That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.”

“Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yourself both mentally and physically...well, you're completely vulnerable.”

“...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.”

“You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.”

“...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.”

“Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...”

“Youre just another story I cant tell anymore.”

“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”

“I couldve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didnt miss you.”

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

“I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," ...”

“This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.”

“There are moments of heartache and heartbreak, that we wonder how we did not drop dead in our pain. Perhaps, it is in the gift of shock that we, slowly in the midst of adversity, find acceptance an...”

“I had sex with Jett because I was attracted to him. Jett hired me because he wanted me. It was lust at first sight.”

“Loving her was heaven that turned to hell when she died.”