“He wanted to break up with me in the cafeteria? Fat chance. I leaned toward him and touched his arm in a girlfriend sort of way. If you planned to stage a public breakup with me, you can forget it....”

“Since he didnt seem to understand the situation, I felt it my duty to enlighten him. Wrong. You started this stupid rumor and half the school probably believes its true. Now you have to stick aroun...”

“Bryce looked like a California underwear model. Not that Id thought about him in his underwear.Much.He was talking with his friend Nathan. Where Bryce had the whole tan, blond, hazel-eyed thing goi...”

“In an unexpected move, Bryce reached for my hand and pulled me to his side. Play along. Well straighten this out later.Good Lord, the school hottie was touching me. It felt like Id won some sort of...”

“With his blond hair, broad shoulders, and perpetual tan,Bryce looked like a California underwear model. Not that Id thought about him in his underwear.Much.”

“Maybe I should put an ad online. Honor student seeks overly self-confident young man for fake relationship. Terms negotiable.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

“A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over.”

“Red in the head, Silver in the heart”

“I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.”