Page 3: "But I don't like thinking about what if because it depresses the hell out of me. What if doesn't matter anymore because I have to deal with right now...I gotta believe that right now just might change my life... Right now is all I got."
Page 30: "One day we would learn how a smile could knock us on our ass."
Page 43: "So desperate to connect. To matter."
Page 50: "...to figure out if you are,..., a bitch or just a complicated girl who was having a bad day."
Page 79: "We're all hiding something...None of us are perfect."
Page 82: "...sometimes I wish I was still fooled, because there's something safe about floating through life on a cloud of ignorance. It is, as they say, bliss after all."
Page 97: "...you've got some stuff going on. Stuff that you're having a hard time dealing with, and I get that. I've been there. I guess we all get there sometime. It's just some of us get there first and some of us stay there a long time."
Page 102: "...we're supposed to be having the best summer of our lives...Our last blast of fun before the next phase." "Our lives are about to change forever, and right now is the time for us to experience anything and everything. If we don't grab what we want now, it might pass by and we'll never know."
Page 108: "Why was the picture they presented to the world so much more important than the people behind the portrait?"
Page 110: "Girls get pissy or whatever, and it's a big thing that carries on or days or weeks...when guys have a disagreement, they get in each other's faces, have it out, and go back to being buddies."
Page 176: "...no easy answer. No easy way. That's the thing about action and consequence. You have to learn to deal with it or you'll go crazy."
Page 214: "You can accept the way things are without trying to change them, or you can do everything that you have to do to get to where you want to be. Where you're meant to be. It might be a different version of what you wanted, but that's okay. We're kids. We're supposed to adapt."
Page 256: "...everyone had stuff to deal with. Everyone had scars that didn't show."
Page 258: "Being honest was the bravest thing a person could be."
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