“I think... I think sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes people have to go before you get stuff. Before you can really get it.”

“School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.”

“That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.”

“I love you,' I say, and I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.”

“love is...you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.”

“the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are”

“Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.”