“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”

“I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.”

“Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescencejust getting through to the real part of your lifebut it's more tha...”

“There's a girl calm people don't know about. It's a girl teen standstill. A motionless peace. It doesn't come from anywhere but inside us, and it only lasts for a few years. It's born from being a ...”

“What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.”

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

“I dont need words, I just need you to come back. - Taryn”

“To achieve peace,we needed to have a war to start with.”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“I knew right then that I wanted to be a part of something that meaningful. I wanted to have something I was so passionate about that I'd be willing to risk everything for it. I wanted to know that ...”

“Do it with passion or not at all.”