“I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. It's always like that. You think you've blown something off and then you say it out loud and suddenly you're all choked up and pathetic.”
“Speak up, Charlie,” I say. “If you have something to say, then say it out loud.”
“I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.”
“I tried to say something cool, wound up stammering something like, “WANNA YOU WANNA WEENIE ME?” The end kind of trailed off in a shrill, choking warble.”
“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.”
“I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!"He nodded, "About you.”