“She's altered the rules on me. We weren't supposed to become the teenagers who 'have problems.”

“The last time I saw Kate she was crossing a street, the day before I left town. I turned my head and pretended not to notice her doing the same thing. These are the daily lies that she and I have lived. And the biggest lie of all is that I am here. What kind of a friend am I?”

“I'm always the Skinny Girl, the one with no athletic talents, the girl who doesn't try hard enough, the girl who apparently never eats enough.”

“I know that I need to be completely immersed in it for the rest of my life. And that's probably enough for me to make it.”

“There should be no shame in music.”

“Why go through something alone when there's someone you trust to be with you?”

“At fifteen, it's still kind of tough to see that people can't be compressed into one color all the time. They shift and change, letter days or not, many layers of many colors.”