“But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.”
“The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.”
“Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.”
“If the girl could only have spoken to the other boys and girls, the ones that had followed the golden-eyed boy before her, she would have known that there is always something left to lose.”
“He noticed her giving him the once-over and smiled in a way no gay boy in history had ever smiled at a girl.”
“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”