Tell me you'll never lie to me again, and I'll go with you.

You really are a dumbass.

I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.

Rainbow on the inside!” He giggles. “Can you imagine if we all took them for Pride? Dozens of us. Hundreds. Thousands? All of us marching, rainbow to the core?

Maybe Jess was caught up with these ridiculous, impossible ideas because it meant she never had to try for something real.

Please don't talk to me like I'm crazy. I've been accused of personality disorders enough this week, thanks. You know I've slept with girls before and didn't get attached.

It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?

I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.

The only time she's come close to being "known" was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while talking about her favorite poem.

I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!

Jess is painfully aware of how young she is. Her shirtsleeves don't quite extend to her wrists; after a growth spurt last summer, her debate clothes don't fit as well as she thought. She feels as if she's playing dress-up.

Lord knows why I find you attractive, Michael, when you generally smell like weed and broken hobo dreams.

I don't know what I was looking for . . . I felt empty. I guess. Not hearing from you made it all seem surreal, like you were never there, a dream, a figment of my imagination.I went to your site that day to . . . I guess, double-check.I thought. . . maybe you wrote something, a new story . . . a message . . . anything.I did find a new story . . . It wasn't about us . . .And I ended up feeling even emptier.

Jess is too big for her skin, as if she might float away in the exhilarating possibility of the moment.

What's the best way to say because it's too embarrassing to talk to a crush about sex and read an explicit thing they wrote while they're right there?

He was so cute when he was embarrassed that it was embarrassing me.

She looks great in that skirt. Her butt is so cute.

We can't just sit on our asses and not live our lives while we're trying to expose a corrupt government.