"We didn't want the boys to be gentlemen. We wanted them to think we were pretty and ask us to dance and hold our hands and maybe kiss us in the corner and then send us clever instant messages. Yes, that's what we wanted, even from boys who were as stupid and mean as Adam Cox and his friends" (p. 26).

"I felt like everyone in school could see my heart breaking, blood pouring out of my chest and sloshing down across my shoes and gushing under the table. And nobody cared, because they thought I deserved it" (Page 52).

"In movies, there are always misunderstandings before the hero and heroine get together. He seems like he hates her, she thinks she hates him ... and then it turns out they were wrong. They love each other madly. And that's the end" (Page 64).

"If people want to fight for their rights...