“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”

“Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.”

“It looks like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every single branch on the way down.”

“A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.”

“… you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.”

“I think I just fell into like with him.”

“Be thou erect, or be made erect.”

“His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that.”

“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think… I think… maybe… it's both happening at the same time.”