“-Most people would say that she's beautiful.-That's because she's been with most people.”

“Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.”

“Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.”

“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

“They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.”

“That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.”

“So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.”