“I had books and music and the ocean to swim in.”

“Please, someone tell me I wouldn‘t be that annoying if I had girlfriends.”

“Excitement in Eastport? Nay! But I had time to snoop around Nancy Drew style.”

“Welcome to Lorelei's." A saleslady glided up to us. She had white foundation pancaked skin, and went heavy on the eyeliner and red lipstick. She wore a corset that barely contained...I'm gonna say it...her swelling bosom. If she had to sneeze, I was covering my eyes because even a slight cough could pop one of those suckers free.”

“He had a matching bandage on his head. We looked like two idiots who’d decided to have a head-butting competition”

“I think the correct term for this was ‘pissing contest’, and though I was flattered, I didn’t have time for it.”

“Were Gabriel and I going to fall in love? Be together forever? Live our lives happily as soul mates? Who the hell knew something like that? Isure didn’t. I can’t see the future.All I knew was that I would love finding out.”