“I read the tea leaves as if they were wordsleft over from a conversation between two cups.”

“The self is constituted within a variety of arenas and in relation to multiple traditions. Self-hood, on this understanding, is both provisional and open-ended, and critically depends on the configuration of relationships between one’s own groups and those cultures and values that are deemed ‘other’. The regulation of alterity becomes a defining attribute of self-hood, as my sense of who I am is crucially mediated by an understanding of that which I am not (paraphrasing William Connolly).”

“had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.”

“Jackie patted her on the shoulder, "you know what you need?"Ash peeked out from between her fingers."Eight hours of rest before tomorrows exam? Bug spray that repels assholes?”

“I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with”

“I always go for confident girls!”

“What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide”