“They fought like champions.For a minute.Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent.”

“Yes!” He wrapped both arms around me, but when I tried to do the same he jumped away. “Watch the suit,” he said, glaring. Oh, boy.”

“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.”

“You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.”

“it was like any other relationship, there wasjealousy on both sides,there were split-ups and reconciliations.there were also fragmented moments ofgreat peace and beauty.I often tried to get away from her andshe tied to get away from mebut it was difficult:Cupid, in his strange way, was reallythere.”

“She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.”