“You have that syndrome that chronically sick kids get, like overdeveloped conscience syndrome," she announced."You made that up."Juliet laughed. "I did. You have it though. You always feel like you're inconveniencing somebody.""I am always inconveniencing somebody. I'm an inconvenient person.""But you're not. We didn't ask to be born this way, Allie. The world owes you one. Not the other way around.”

“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.”

“Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.”

“Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.”

“When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.”

“It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could tell it had ever been an ordinary stone.”

“I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.”