"What happened to goodbye?" Chap. 2, p. 29

"It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell." Chap. 2, p. 29

"All this forced niceness, dancing around a truth: now I'd broken the rules, that third wall, and let everything ugly out into the open." Chap. 9, p. 228

"Here, though, despite my best efforts, I'd somehow ended up being myself again: Mclean Sweet, she of the messed-up parents and weird basketball connections, Super Shitty and a U-Haul's worth of baggage." Chap. 9, p. 237

"How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone." Chap. 9, p. 238

"After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home." Chap. 12, p. 301

"There, the entire world was simple in miniature, clean and orderly, if only because there were none of...