“I need you to just trust me for now without knowing all the answers.”

“You have to be a friend to have them.”

“I wouldnt joke if you werent always patching me up, Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again. You must have noticed, right? Its kind of cute, actually. Though my heart fluttered, I tried to shoot hi...”

“Being in love with your best friend is problematic.”

“As much as I cared about him, I wasnt a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.”

“You shouldnt have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldnt have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other”

“When I arrived back at Intro to Basic Art again later that week, I thought for a moment we had a new student who didn’t know about the assigned seats. Sitting at my table was a girl in a long flowe...”

“What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.”

“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.”