Quotes from book

Prep

“… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”

“Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.”

“Before and after… I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.”

“I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.”

“While I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.”

“I believed then that if you had a good encounter with a person, it was best not to see them again for as long as possible.”

“Flawed as I was, someone recognized me.”

“As for the politics here, what can you do? There’s a lot of posturing, but it’s all kind of meaningless.”