"The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing. Noticing the way she smells like oversugared coffee, and the difference between her smile and her photographed smile, and the way she bites her lower lip, and the pale skin of her back. I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance - I don't want to have acknowledge that I am noticing. I don't want to talk about it or do stuff about it."

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"And then there are nights like tonight, when the truth is what comes out, because it's what we need the most. Or maybe just one of us needs it the most, but the other knows the right time to give it. Like now, when what I want most in the universe is to have him beside me."

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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

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"You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot."

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"I will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. By saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms."

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"Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall or how and when you're gonna land, and I gotta tell you friends that to stop thinking about the landing because it's all about the falling.

... Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's going to hurt. It's going to hurt because it matters.. But I just fell and landed and I am still standing here to tell you that you've gotta learn to love that falling, because it's all about falling... Just fall for once. Let yourself fall!"

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"I am awful.

I am heartless.

I am scared that these things are actually true."

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"Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does."

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"And maybe that's the problem: Maybe each new breakup feels so radically new to Tiny that, in some way, it hasn't happened before."

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"I think about how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not."

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"When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set and break up. You can plot the points on a graph. And you check up with each other along the way: Can I do this? If I say this, will you say it back?"

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"But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are."

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"That's the problem: so many things are true. It's true that I want to smother her with compliments and true that I want to keep my distance. True that I want her to like me and true that I don't. The stupid, endless truth speaking out of both sides of it's big, stupid mouth. It's what keeps me, stupidly, talking."

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"I do not say 'good-bye.' I believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. It's like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' Every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. Well I don't believe in that. I believe against that."

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