“I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”

“I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything.”

“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”

“You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.”

“If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”

“Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.”

“You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.”

“It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.”

“I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.”

“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”