“I didn’t want to give him anything. I was quite happy without boyfriend trouble.”

“When you've got a real boyfriend, everything stupid is okay, and everything scary feels safe.”

“I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.”

“When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil”

“In my experience, a lot of the boys who are real computer-heads tend to be pale-skinned sci-fi fans. Not that there’s anything wrong with that—I happen to be a pale-skinned sci-fi fan myself—but that doesn’t mean I have to fancy other seethrough geeks.So let’s hope Adam isn’t as picky as me.”

“I came to realize that it hadn’t really been up to me to chase after him. It had been Luke’s choice not to staywith me.”

“I've just got to keep going and hope that one day, it starts to feel not quite as bad as it does now.”