"If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

""Chasing stars and loose their shadow,
Peter Pan and Wendy turned out fine,
So won't you fly with me?"
— Jonas Brothers

"You can try to break us, and make us fall apart, but the fire's in our hearts!"
— Jonas Brothers

"Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

"This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place."
— Nick Hornby (About a Boy)

"[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage."
— Nick Hornby (About a Boy)

"'You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true.'"
— Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)

""I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?"
"PITY""
— Sarah Rees Brennan (The Demon's Lexicon)

"He hadn’t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn’t even been the first she’d loved. He’d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. He’d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadn’t drowned. "
— Megan Hart (Deeper)