“The only thing I know for sure is that this summer, I want to be with you. Sometimes I wish I could make everything else go away and have it only be you and me in our own little world.”

“I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could ...”

“That was when I forgot how to breathe altogether.”

“I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying off loans when I don't even like school to begin with.”

“But maybe no one knew that much. Maybe everyone was making it up as they went along, the same as me.”

“I was really good at sitting around and debating things in my head.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“In that moment, it felt like we were the entire world. Just me and those gorgeous stars.”

“As long as they don't know, I am safe”

“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”

“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”