“A GIRL WAS BORN FROM DARKNESS,AND SHONE JUST LIKE THE SUN.SHE ROSE TO FOOL THE HEARTLESS,BUT GAVE HER LOVE TO NONE.SO THIS GIRL DID DIED IN GLORY,ON THE FIELD WHERE SHE WAS SLAIN,AND SHE'LL NEVER HEAR HER STORYAND WE'LL NEVER KNOW HER NAME.”

“Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her today? "In a girl's voice lies temptation - a known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body." She doesn't believe it yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. Marry, raise children and honor her family. Spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence. ”

“When a girl cries over a guy,she really loves him.when a guy cries over a girl ,he will never love another girl like her.”

“Brooke Wilkins?" I ask [...]"She's this really annoying girl from Cali who, like, constantly talks about all the girls she's hooked up with. It's just so freshman year, you know?""What is?""Bragging about how you've hooked up with girls.""We never did that.""No, but everyone else did. Remember Sonya Fullmer?""Oh, right," I say. "She was always kissing girls to get guys interested in her.""I remember her," Noah says, grinning."Figures," Ava says.”

“No, Grace. I don't have a heart. I did once, but I gave it to a girl and I let her keep it when she died.”

“I'd never reacted to a girl this way before. My body was on fire when I was around Rose, and when I wasn't with her, all I did was think about her. Today had been the longest day of my life, dragging on forever until it was finally time to go meet her in the field.”