Quotes from Simone Elkeles

Just so you know, I'm goin' to enlist." "I'm proud of you. But why?" I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. "I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.

It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

I want to live life on my own terms.

As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven't felt this way in forever.

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.

I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.

God take care of him, because he's my past and my future

Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left.

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

Alex and Carlos—the tag team from hell. They're the last people I need shit from right now. If they decide to trail me, too, I'll have an entire entourage. "I'm fine." "Then sit up and talk to us." "Okay, in that case I'm not fine. Go away." I moan. "Unless you want me to puke all over you.

I love you because you're the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers).

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

Oh, and just so you know, before we go out to the field we all get into a huddle and yell 'Go Queers!' really loud.

I now know why people break up in e-mails and text messages. Doing it face-to-face is so hard because you have to stand in front of the person and witness their reaction. Face their wrath.

Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.

If you can't share with your friends, who can you share with?

Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days

Do I make you nervous?" His gaze travels from my eyes to my breasts and down to where my dress meets my thighs. "In that dress you do.

I wasn't going to kiss you."' 'You weren't?' I look up look up at him. [...] 'Nope, the next time I kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And when we're done you're going to realize being turned on is not about experience.

I like that girl more that I can remember likin' anything in my life. I'm not about to give her up. I'll start carin' what people think when I am six feet under.