“The only thing I know for sure is that this summer, I want to be with you. Sometimes I wish I could make everything else go away and have it only be you and me in our own little world.”

“I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could ...”

“Girls like me smiled politely and always did the right thing. Girls like me definitely didn't sneak away at night to do things that would crush their fathers. And if they did, girls like me knew ho...”

“That was when I forgot how to breathe altogether.”

“I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying off loans when I don't even like school to begin with.”

“But maybe no one knew that much. Maybe everyone was making it up as they went along, the same as me.”

“To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend becaus...”

“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”

“True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend”

“I suppose its not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do to feel, discuss feelings. So thats what Im giving the finger to. Social norms and stuffwhat good are social norms, really? I think all...”

“I dont understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbiansits a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, its not who you lovea man, a woman, what have youits the fact that you love. Th...”

“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl's kiss...”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”