"Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)

"Cameron Newton was probably the only person in school who was getting weirder lookes that Scarlett that fall. He'd transferred in September, which was hard enought, but he was also one of those short, skinny kids with pasty white skin; he always wore black, which made him look half dead, or half alive, depending on how optimistic you were.

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Cameron was looking up at us, in his black turtleneck and black jeans. Even his eyes looked black.

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"Hello." His voice was surprisingly deep for such a small guy, and he had an accent that made you lean in and concentrate to understand him.

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I spent the rest of that week in Commercial Design getting to know Cameron Newton. And Scarlett was right: he was funny. In a weird, under-his-breath-as-if-totally-not-meaning-to way that made you think you shouldn't laugh, even when you wanted to. He was incredibly artistic, truly gifted even; he could make a clay face of anyone in minutes.


So Scarlett took Cameron in, the way she'd taken me in all those years ago. And Cameron grew on me as well; his low, quiet voice, his all black ensembles, his strange, jittery laugh. "
— Sarah Dessen

"When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed."
— Sarah Dessen

"If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth."
— Mitsugi Saotome

"life is an ugly, awful place not to have a best friend"
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"*random is telling someone to go suck a poptart in the rain
"
— Facebook Flair

""Who lit the fuse on your tampon?""
— Sheekatra

"Life's to short to be cool. Yeah, so what if you're an outcast at school? So what if everyone hates you. You gotta remember that there are people in this world that will love you. So dont forget. Everyone has someone."
— Lyle Hathaway

""LIFE IS PAIN Highness!
Anyone who says differently is selling something."
"
— Wesley

"I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again."
— C. S. Lewis