“There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do”

“When I kept someone else from getting hurt, did I hurt you?”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

“Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.”

“The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.”

“I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”

“Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.”