Page 91: "...I know what it's like to have people assume they know you. In my experience, they're almost always wrong."
Page 97: "How many pictures showcased this sort of lie? How many made the viewers imagine a fantasy?...How many of those smiles were true?...Maybe we grinned into cameras in hope that we might remember we could be happy."
Page 108: "All these ways of time-stamping our inclusion in the world, our need to say, I was there. I was part of something bigger than me."
Page 116: "I think people attach themselves to certain people, certain events, because those things have energy; they create an atmosphere. And there is a certain amount of energy that gets absorbed by an atmosphere."
Page 117: "Most of us floated around seeking energy so we could just swim around in it, bask in it. And we didn't always want to produce it ourselves...Proof of atmosphere."
Page 118: "You were just being honest. Believe me, that's rare."
Page 149: "Some things were meant to stay in their hidden places, right?"
Page 158: "When something feels right, why, just because we're turning a certain age, do we have to toss it all out in the name of some sort of adult success, in the name of growing up? Why do we always have to want something else, something better? What if it doesn't actually get better? What if everyone out there is just lying to me and it really doesn't get better than this?"
Page 159: "...as human beings, [we] always have a hard time with things we can't explain... We're fascinated by things we can't figure out, by the things that don't have a right or wrong answer. Even when we can't explain them, we need to make some sort of sense out of them--create lists, find connections, map it out."
Page 183: "Remember when you were little and you were just supposed to love something? No one asked you why."
Page 201: "...sometimes, things we love need to go dormant or come out in a different form for a while."
Page 230: "...I was good at noticing moments, at appreciating the little things in life."
Page 233: "...I think there is value in building yourself first."
Page 244: "We're all trying to post our best features. Pictures, texting,...we only give people the bits we want them to see. We walk around updating our status so people only get a version of us. Online, people have their own image-controlled environment. It's all a part of [us], but it's not the whole story."
Page 245: "People get a sense of you. The real you. Even if it's just little bits." "It was weird to think one person might see me one way and another person might have a totally different impression of me based on a separate list of experiences."
Page 250: "There's no right way...Just perspective. We choose whether we succeed or fail...It's all our own spin on it. We create our own definition of success or failure. You can't hold yourself up to other people's versions of things. Not society's idea of things, and not other people's. Your own. But regret...well, that's a real thing...You should try things on, see if they fit you. If they don't it's not failure. It's a choice. But always let yourself have a choice, let yourself have possibilities...You're accountable for yourself. So if you don't ever take the chances, if you don't ever at least try, you're going to be sitting in that café when you're forty thinking about them."
Page 251: "It's not selfish to love something, to put something beautiful out in he world...You've got to figure out what makes the world beautiful for you, so you can help make it beautiful for other people."
Page 252: "...the patterns in our own lives that we assume we must follow--graduation, college, work, marriage. Who stitched those patterns together and decided they were he only way to look at life?..."
Page 288: "Each of us had people who reminded us of our past or pointed out our present, who illuminated our future path in some way."
Page 291: "Whether we search for answers in space or in the books we read, in the music we listen to, or through the movies we watch, the essential thing is that we keep exploring that we keep pushing ourselves to find our possible lives."
Page 296: "That was the great thing about growing up. We got to write our own endings, thousands of them, over and over. That was life. It was a million little endings. But it was also a million little beginnings."
