“This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.”

“Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)”

“When you’re in the middle of being in love with someone, you just don’t stop to ask.”

“Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.”

“A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.”

“You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma”