"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
"The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to."
"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires"
"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
"He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable"
"well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least."