“it's funny how you can't exactly pick your crush. well, you can, but once it get hold of you, it's hard to shake off. ”

“jenna had felt sexy-funny, like lucille ball with flour streaks on her face, a crumb-covered apron that didn't exactly flatter her, and yet nick had kissed her like a prom king falling for the reinvented girl in a movie. ”

“That's what the best par of life is, those days or minutes you can't ever frame or paint beforehand”

“You did respond—your response was the worst kind—you did nothing.”

“or maybe love is summed up in moments - that day in the park, the time you had chinese food by candlelight, when the boy you liked left a message, finally, on your machine. maybe the telling of those moments is even better than the moments themselves. ”

“i mean, heather said, our bodies are just these things that we float around in. it's not like they belong to anyone”

“she uncurls danny's small fists and clasps his hand to hers and notices the way even in his sleep his fingers seem to know their way around hers; their hands together form their own organ, or an x, like on a map that insists you are here. ”