“No. No break. We dont need a break. Im not perfect, but I get it. I cant see you run away from me again. So we stop this. Were all in, because there is no other option for me. Youre my mate. Youre ...”

“I dusted my books off, placing each onesorted alphabetically and by genreon the shelves Dad installed. What some people might call anal, Id call efficient. What good was it to have a book if you co...”

“There was really way too much hotness going on back there.”

“Dastien ran his fingertips along my jawline "Je suis desole, mon amour.”

“I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.”

“Do you believe in love at first sight? Or should I tackle you again?”

“How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.”

“... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them ...”

“To regret ones own experiences is to arrest ones own development. To deny ones own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of ones own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For o...”

“The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that n...”

“I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...”