“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

“The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.”

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

“...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

“What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.”

“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”

“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”

“But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they ...”