“When you screw up someone’s life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.”

“Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.”

“You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.”

“Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.”

“I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”

“Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.”

“What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat)
I write romance novels. (Acheron)”

“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.”

“It is better to leave when When someone takes advantage of your straightforwardness. You should not go where your innocence is made fun of. It is better not to go there, where you are humiliated again and again, the person with whom all this happens, breaks up.”

“When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.”