“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”

“God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would...”

“Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.”

“Agent Jones held Sinjins face in his hands. Im going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.How right you are, strange delusional man, Sinjin said.”

“Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She was well and truly pissed off. "Why do girls have to be all pure and innocent and good? Why don't...”

“It had the word bitches in it, which is perfectly fine to use if you're a rapper or a director making a movie about career women, but not if you're a teen girl talking about her homies.""Good point...”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”

“Girls get screwed.Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they b...”

“Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.”

“There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.”

“At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.”

“But do you think our futures are already determined for us?Why are you asking all of this? Whats going on?I let out a small laugh. Remember when we were in the hallway? He nodded. Well, Thirteen tr...”