“I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.”

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”

“Old is always fifteen years from now.”

“Fifteen years old is the middle of my life, regardless of when I die.”

“They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every thousand, every ten thousand years? Maybe we just haven't heard about them up to now because this very day is that once-in-a-thousand-years.”

“I'm the girl next door.I meet Jesse the day we moved in,fifteen years ago.People say you don't remember stuff from when you were two,but i do. Not whole days ,but moments.And feelings.Even then,it felt like he belonged with me.”