“I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.”

“Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.”

“I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)”

“I still care for you, you know..That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.”

“Girls are impossible to satisfy." "Not every girl." Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.”

“back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.”

“I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.”