“I had two beady brown eyes that, no matter how hard I tried to look mysterious and cool, always seemed to say "It wasn't just me who farted.”

“This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.”

“No matter how hard lots of people tried, I wasn't going away. The universe was stuck with me.”

“I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at me. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it feels and no matter how much I try to reason it away the truth in this moment… is that Jonathan Hayes owns me heart and soul.”

“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”

“I tried to dredge up the same reaction other girls had around Marcus, but nothing happened. No matter how hard I tried, I just didn't have that same attraction His hair was too blond, I decided. And his eyes needed a little more green.”