“Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing youve got to do is find a way to live there.”

“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”

“People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ...”

“You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.”

“He really is alone in whatever hell this is.Completely and utterly alone.'It isn't,' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.”

“I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”