“I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.”

“I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.”

“I wanted to like her and I wanted her to like me and that was more want than I had saddled myself with in many a moon.”

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”

“There's no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.”

“There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.”Ely in Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List Rachel Cohn and David Levithan”