“I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”

“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”

“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”

“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”

“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”

“Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.”