You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

Emergency dance party--go away.

I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?

You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

She was tired of being the one who cried.

When you ask, expect the answer.

Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.