“Why are you so upset? Why do you look like you’ve just lost your heart? Because the guy you’ve wanted for so long finally wants to be with you? Or because the guy you actually love thinks the worst of you?”

“...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.”

“Do you know what that’s like? How good it feels? For once in my life, someone wants me.”

“I can barely get a guy in my own town to realize I'm alive. Well that’s not true, he knows I’m alive. He just doesn't t look at me the way I want him to. Like, well like the way Grant is looking at me right now. His eyes all gentle and questioning, his lips slightly parted.”

“So unless you really care about me as a person, stop bothering me. I’m done pretending, you should be too.”

“After years of self deprecating behavior, I’ve never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there’s nothing special about me.”

“...the difference between me and her is that she loves being smart, and I love learning, and those are two very different things.”