“Beau, what is it you want?""A porch," he says softly. He says it like it's my name, and right then, I think, what both of us want more than anything is something we can never have. "All I really wa...”

“She may be a bitch, but she's a genuine bitch with a heart”

“I don't believe in love at first sight but maybe this is as close as it gets: seeing someone, a person you have no business loving, on a football field one night and thinking, I want you to be mine...”

“Rachel, I snap, I dont care if Janelle wants to work at Hooters. I dont care if you and the rest of the world want to go spend your money on dried-out chicken and ketchup-based sauces. And least of...”

“For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.”

“Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.”

“Leo and the Notmuch, the five-year old Leo Loses his best friend (is death for children like moving away?). For a whole summer he sits in his room and makes up stories. When his mother knocks and a...”

“I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.”

“Silence is a girls loudest cry”

“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.”