“We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect.”

“I almost feel bad for declining, but I feel more terrible that I cant stop looking at how his chest rises and falls with each of his frustrated breaths.”

“Im glad we can be friends.Theres that word again. Its like a safe word.”

“The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isnt fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.I fiddle with my hand...”

“I chew my food, leaning back into the couch. I loved him. Thats what dumb girls do.You arent dumb.I try to hold back my smile. Im hanging out with you, arent I?”

“I didnt know who I was or who I wanted to be until you stumbled into my life. I refuse to let you go.”

“Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be don...”

“Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you”

“Aurora! Dad came running out.Over here.Were going to head home. Dad leaned against a post at the bottom of the steps. Hey, guys. Whatre you talking about?I smiled. Justgirl stuff.Tampons, Blake blu...”

“It made him feel like less of a man. And given how much less of a man hed felt the past several weeks, that was really saying something. He was surprised someone from the Man Club hadnt come by to ...”

“Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to s...”

“Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”