Quotes from Gail Giles

I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277)

Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)

Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?

WORDS ARE TEETH. AND THEY EAT ME ALIVE. FEED ON MY CORPSE INSTEAD.

You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)

You get mad at me, you kick the tire, I don't get a bruise, the tire doesn't care, and you're the only one hurting. How's that working for you, Kip?

Break up? We didn't break up. He gave me away.

We were random stars, and he made us a constellation.

Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.

These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-" "That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment

You know, Young, this is as good as anything gets. I wonder if this is it? Is this the very best day I'll ever have? (122)

If I beat myself up about the bad stuff I did, I'm ignoring that I was strong enough to stop being that person. I think what I'm doing with my life now is a lot more important than what I did when I was a stupid kid.

Did it matter whether I was a bad hamster or a good hamster? I was still running on a wheel to nowhere.

You're not tough. You're broken.

Sometimes I don't know what to do with this much happy.

With the sound of waves outside, the bed seemed like our own Guld and we were swimmers. Front to front, out bodies slicked with sweat, each swimming and stroking, one against the other. We rode the waves to the crests, then plummeted down, only to ride the wave to the next breaker. We swam against the current that threatened to pull us under.

When you wade, you're kind of bogged down. You can't walk, or run; you're not swimming; you're kind of fighting the water all the time.

I refuse to forgive anyone because that implies that I'm superior-that I have a right to make a judgement.

Why make waves if you don't know how to surf?

A thief, stealing his friendship.

I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it.

Em and I don't giggle but we sort of snort, so we snorted.

Leastwise, if I live with her, I finally be the smartest person in the house.

Hammer. Nail. Direct hit.