“If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.”

“Why are you limping like that?' Nicholas demanded. 'I'm swaggering,' I informed him. 'You look like you're wearing a diaper.' Charming. And I had a crush on this guy. Wait. I had a crush on this guy? 'Now what?' he asked. 'You're making weird faces.' 'Nothing,' I said quickly. 'Never mind.”

“Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.”

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”

“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”

“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”

“I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.”