“When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set and break up. You can plot the points on a graph. And you check up with each other along the way: Can I do this? If I say this, will you say it back?"But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.”
“But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.”
“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.”
“I think you spend your life expecting to be disappointed, so when someone hurts you just a tiny bit, you can say: there I was right all along...You like being right.”
“And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.”
“There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.”