Cammie McGovern quotes:

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they love me.''I don't know if this was like that.''What happened?'He thought for a moment. 'Well. I realized I loved her.'Hannah gasped. 'Oh God, that's so sweet.

I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.