“I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I dont like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.”

“Something else you should really know about me. When I get nervous, my fingers shake. Ive noticed this a lot recently. When mother and father argue and their voices are falling around the small fam...”

“I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering of where the old me was hiding. A...”

“Most of the girls I've met since moving here have failed to ignite any modicum of enduring interest. Of course, I've dated; I'm seventeen years old and as horny as the next guy.”

“Reed wanted to believe, and he had to place faith in her, to have a life with her. Ruby, the one thing I know for certain is I love you. I have faith in you. I believe in you.”

“I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.”

“Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.”

“All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.”

“Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.”

“Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy." "You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. "Would you like-ah to order-ah the ...”

“Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed into a concerto for violin, the instrument ...”

“I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.”