“I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or preten...”

“Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, youre popular enough.”

“Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadnt gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. Here, she said.Dont you want it?Sure I want it. I ordered it. But ...”

“Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct.""Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it.""Human interaction is not my strong point,"...”

“Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He...”

“Noel: A lot of people see friends as something you have on Twitter or Facebook or wherever. If someone wants to read your updates and you want to read their updates, then youre friends. You dont ev...”

“Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadnt gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. Here, she said.Dont you want it?Sure I want it. I ordered it. But ...”

“You can love more than one person, she said. That's arguable. Why is it any different from having more than one friend? You're friends with me and you also have other friends, does that mean you do...”

“When I looked at them sitting around me, the church in the distance, beyond that our school, with throngs of girls crossing back and forth in the schoolyard, beyond that the world, how I wished tha...”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”