It doesn’t matter,” Reagan said. “He already likes you. I think he’s into the nerdy schoolgirl thing. He talks about you like you’re something he found in a natural history museum.
You shouldn’t be,” Neal said. He lifted his chin and looked directly in her eyes. For the second time in five minutes. For the second time ever. “I’m here because I knew you’d be here. Because I hoped you would be.
If only Geprgie could figure out how to call herself in the past, she’d tell herself how young and lovely she was.
There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy.
The noise the phone makes when you leave it off the hook It stops after a while.
Back in college, Neal had thought about joining the military; he would have been really good at the part where you have to deliver terrible news or execute a heartbreaking order without betraying how much it was costing you. Neal’s face could fly the Enola Gay.
She wasn’t,” Heather said, crying now. “Pugs are bred to be useless. We have to take her to the vet.
Passing Time was a show that captured all the angst of high school life – all the highs and lows, all the absurdities – and then made them higher and lower and more absurd.
She almost sounded sane... If you didn’t know that she was acting rational on the far side of crazy.
If it tries to take you, I won’t let go.
There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.” Professor Piper.
But you saved my life, and now I’m yours. The me that’s me right now is yours. Always.
None of his friend’s parents were still together, and in every case that seemed like the number one thing that had gone wrong with her friends’ lives.
And you look like a protagonist.” She was talking as fast as she could think. “You look like the person who wins in the end. You’re so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes,” she whispered. “And you make me feel like a cannibal.
I love you and I need you to be happy. And you’re not happy. So I look for what in your life is making you unhappy.
She lifted her chin up and forced her forehead to relax. “I’m the Cool One,” she told herself. “Somebody give me some tequila because I’ll totally drink it. And there’s no way you’re going to find me later having a panic attack in your parents’ bathroom. Who wants to French-kiss?
There should be a word for a laugh that ends as soon as it starts. A laugh that’s more a syllable of surprise and acknowledgment than it is anything else.
So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book person.” “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me.
Because he didn’t laugh when he thought something was funny – he laughed when he was happy.
You look like you, he said, you with the volume turned up.