“Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favorite person in the world was probably dead.”

“Over my dead body was his first thought. His second? No, Over Carls.”

“You should have dragged my butt out of bed.""Your butt's too big to drag," Taylor said.Hayley sat on the floor, facing her sister. "That means yours is too. We have the same butt, remember?""Don't remind me," Taylor said. "I see it every time you walk in front of me.”

“I’m in trouble with this one, I thought. For the first time in my life, I had the thought that I was in over my head with a woman.”

“I knew I love him then. It was the first time I cried out of hurt and the thought that he might never fully understand me.”

“I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny legs and my nose, I have even cried over my stupid shoes, and now when I have true sadness there are no tears left.”