“Dixon: This sucks. Debbie: Dixon, how about a new phrase like 'this bites' or 'this blows'? Because you've been saying 'this sucks' for the last 1,500 miles. Dixon: 'Cause it sucks.”— Rob Thomas, Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah, Dixon Wilson, Tristan Mack Wilds, imdb.com
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.”— Jodi Piclout, amazon.com
“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through.”— Gayle Forman, Adam, amazon.com
“In my first memory, I am three years old and I am trying to kill my sister.”— Jodi Picoult, Anna Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”— John Green, amazon.com
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway, amazon.com
“I slept on one of the couches in Camilla’s living room, using my packed duffel bag as a pillow and my jacket as a blanket.”— David Shapiro, amazon.com