“Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”

“As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.”

“You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane”

“That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.”

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

“Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”