“Indecisiveness is a very unattractive trait in a man, especially when he's just a boy.”

“I’d give just about anything if I could make you care,” he said. “Especially about me.”

“No, thanks. If I start wearing heels, boys will whistle at me when I walk by.”

“You need air. You need food. You don't need some beastly boy.”

“When Fancy still didn't answer, he took her hand, and with his red paintbrush, he wrote 'please' into her palm.”

“Holding on to a four-year-old boy wasn't weird, as it should have been. It was comforting. Like holding an incredibly sticky teddy bear.”

“I figured she wanted to get into it with me, some he's-my-man-so-step-off song and dance. If so, she would have to dance solo.I don't do drama.”