“Everyone wants a world without sadness, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.”

“And when I have that feeling, that feeling like I need a handout, desperate, I want to pull my skin off and turn into dust.I want to throw myself back to the angels and tell them to start over,start over without me cause you put the screws in loose, you put the hinges in wrong.”

“...kids marked by the special thinness that one has only once, the transparent thinness of early maturity, when, without knowing it, you are immortal. And completely permeable. When you can walk indifferently down the street with a lover because you have become that lover. Two small people without dislike of suspicion.”

“Why couldn't I have puppy love? I only seem to have "I can't decide if I want to rip your throat out or kiss you" love. Ugh.”

“That is exactly why you can't have me yet, Ren. I'm not going to share.”

“Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.”

“And the sad happiness said, "You know precisely when you're going to finish.”