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I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that ma...more

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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

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It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

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So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

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Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?

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... Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out.