“La ausencia aminora las pequeñas pasiones y agranda las grandes.”

“No quiero ser esa persona, así que paso la mayor parte de mi tiempo en la escuela fingiendo y mintiendo. Se necesita un gran esfuerzo para fingir algo que no eres. No pienso en la música que me gusta, pienso en la música que debería gustarme. Cuando tuve una novia, traté de convencerla de que era el hombre que ella quería que fuera. Cuando estoy en una multitud, me quedo en la retaguardia hasta que pueda encontrar la manera de hacerlos reír. Por suerte, si hay una cosa que se me da bien, es fingir y mentir.”

“Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.”

“She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.”

“It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.”

“Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.”

“Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was--see if she would swallow a butt whole”