Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone.

—Ann Brashares in Girls In Pants

Shy" was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. "Snotty" was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

—Ann Brashares in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

—Ann Brashares in My Name Is Memory

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people. Once you knew them you mostly forgot about it.

—Ann Brashares in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

But like everything else, love changed.

—Ann Brashares in The Last Summer

People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.

—Dagobert D. Runes

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

You cannot step into the same river twice.

—Heraclitus

That's how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He's nowhere, then suddenly he's everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.

—Colleen Hoover in Ugly Love

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them.

—Tana French in The Likeness