“Crushes are for fourteen year olds. Ellie, I would describe what's happening to you as falling.”

“Ellie, I came back early because I was driving everyone around me crazy. When I wasn't texting you or talking to you, I was talking about you, and thinking about you, and wondering about you...you get the idea.”

“You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?”

“Here's what I think: it's one thing to know that rejection is coming, and it's an entirely different thing when it arrives.”

“I love you back - in a big and epic way.”

“You know, I never should have let you not be my friend. It's not healthy for either of us.”

“If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer is: professing your love to a boy, while standing in front of your friends, parents and a hundred strangers, and having him turn and walk away from you.”