“That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.”

“Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.”

“I didnt know. I feel sometimes likethere are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? Youre supposed to carry a shoulder bag, not a backpack. Youre supposed to wear headbands, or youre not s...”

“I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.”

“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believ...”

“You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”