“smoking is bad mmmkaay and and ummmm ummm well untill our 18 mmmkaay”

“aids is bad mmmkaay”

“[P]art of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.”

“The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind”

“I’ll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she turns 18.”

“Our distance has lived in me like the aftermath of a bad dream-I carry it around, the knowledge that we were once close, that something was lost; it's the lingering sadness of unfinished business. (18)”

“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well”