...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

Where his eyes should’ve been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.

The knowledge of the soul is knowledge of the universe

To hope is not to demand.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

There is no beginning that is a blank page.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents