“You can't just dream it, be it.”

“Well, I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a rock star, wondering why I bothered.”

“I only got to see three songs, Mac""That does not entitle you to take home the lead singer, Jody""I know""Most people settle for a T-shirt or a poster. Not Jody. Jody wants actual band members”

“There's no point breaking your crayons over this, okay?”

“You're worth so much more than anything I can give you. If you can't believe that right now, believe in me.”

“You can't tell that the coffin holds the body of a boy.He wasn't even sixteen but his coffin's the same size as a man's would be.It's not just that he was young, but because it was so sudden. No one should die the way he did; that's what the faces here say.I think about him, in there, with all that space, and I want to stop them. I want to open the box and climb in with him. To wrap him up in a duvet. I can't bear the thought of him being cold.And all the time the same question flails around my head, like a hawkmoth round a light-bulb: Is it possible to keep loving somebody when they kill someone you love?”

“I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can't promise you that I won't want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.”