“I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.”

“Humans were not to be toyed with, they were to be respected.”

“Every Valentine’s Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.”

“Kingsley nodded. ‘Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.”

“It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful.”

“I don’t need anything to get high. I’m high on life.”

“But there’s always a first time for everything”

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”