“there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.”

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

“If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.”

“I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time. ”

“There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.”

“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”

“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”