“I need to experience books, not just read them.”

“I have my own e-reader, but I hardly ever use it. I need to fold down pages and flag passages with sticky notes. I need to experience books, not just read them. I never go anywhere without a book in my bag, and to travel across the ocean, I'd packed more than my fair share.”

“they do have these things called bookstores there. I've heard tell that if you give them money, they let you leave with a book.”

“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.”

“Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?”

“I was just hoping that you'd realize that guys like me, go with girls like you.”

“I mean, I am totally not one of those prudes who believe having sex as a teenager is some kind of mortal sin or social death. I don't have a problem with sex. I just don't happen to be having it. And if I were having sex, I certainly wouldn't be getting it on in an airplane bathroom. Who wants to get down and dirty in a place so . . . cramped and dirty?”