"I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"
-Along For the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

"Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make."
-Along For the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

"If I open it now, what's coming will be instead what has come. This time, right now - it's the intstrumental before the vocals, the love before love's been admitted, the Christmas eve before the Christmas. Some things need a delicious before, and this envelope is one of them."
-The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
by Deb Caletti

"The loss doesn't go away - it just gets bigger the longer you look at it. It's the same with people who say, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"It's not human to let go of love, even when it's dead. We expected one of these monthly anniversaries to be the Final Goodbye. We figured that we'd said all our goodbyes, and give up all the tears we had to give. We'd passed the test and would get back what we'd lost. But instead, every anniversary it hurt more, and every anniversary it felt like she was further away from coming back. The idea that there wouldn't be a final goodbye - that was a hard goobye to say in itself, and, at that point, still an impossible goodbye."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besides here in this car, with this girl, on this road, listening to this song. If she breaks my heart, no matter what hell she puts me through, I can say it was worth it, just because of right now. Out the window is a blur and all I can really hear it this girl's hair flapping in the wind, and maybe if we drive fast enough the universe will lose track of us and forget to stick us somewhere else."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"I could already tell there were things happening deep inside me that were irreversible. Is there any scarier word than 'irreversible'? It's a hiss of a word, full of side effects and utilations. Severe tire damage - no backing up. Falling in love with Renee felt that way. I felt strange things going on inside me, and I knew that these weren't things I would recover from. These were changes that were shaping the way things were going to be, and I wouldn't find out how until later. Irreversible."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield