“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”

“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.”

“We tend to make up the people we fall in love with”

“I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.”

“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.”

“Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!”

“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.”