“I'd also believe that all teenage boys go around calling girls baby, because apparently that's the express train to romance.”

“Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.”

“It’s an age old story … Boy meets girl. Boy asks girl to touch him inappropriately. Girl dazzles boy with her impressive knowledge and proper use of profanity.”

“I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision board for a single woman in her early thirties.”

“I say Sunshine and then she shatters.All the pieces of all the girls go flying and I’m holding the one who’s left.”

“Nothing else matters. If I had a penny right now I'd wish that were true; I want to believe it more than I've ever wanted to believe anything.”

“...but she's my tangent girl and I'll follow her if this is where she wants to go.”