“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.”

“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.”

“Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.”

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

“...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in yo...”

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

“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”

“Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.”

“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.”