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There shouldn't even be a default.

I mean, I think people have this mentality that sex is only real if it involves a penis.

She's also the kind of person who pretends to ask a question just to show off what she already knows.

But there's this thing I feel when I meet another Jewish person in the wild. It's like a secret invisible high five.

Because I have to admit: there's something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.

I don't know. There's just something kind of mortifying to me about the intensity of those feelings. I remember them so clearly.

Wonder Woman and a gay dementor. It doesn't bode well for the survival of the species.

It's really amazing, isn't it? Someone can trigger your sexual identity crisis and not have a clue they're doing it.

I HAVE TO MEET HIM.
I don't think I can keep this up. I don't care if it ruins everything. I'm this close to making out with my laptop screen.

I don't know how people do this. How Blue did this. Two words. Two freaking words, and I'm not the same Simon anymore.

There's something about you that makes me want to open up, and that's slightly terrifying to me.

I think every relationship is actually a million relationships.

Puberty is merciless.

So, maybe I should let my heart break, just to prove that my heart can take it.

I don't even know. I'm just so sick of straight people who can't get their shit together.

It's just hard to believe in the concept of Molly-With-a-Boyfriend.

Then he smiles and I smile. And then I blush and he lowers his eyes, and it's like this entire pantomime of nervous gestures.

We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.

He tells me to pick the music. I'm not sure if he knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul.

I'm not trying to overthink things. I'm trying to be less careful. But you have to be your heart's own goalie.

I have a sneaking suspicion that you're not 100% committed to your Oreo diet.

I can't seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.

I wish there were a secret signal you could use to communicate: HELLO. I AM OFFICIALLY COOL WITH SILENCE. Not

The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.

I mean, that's my family. Everything's a freaking secret, because everything's a big deal. Everything is like coming out" -Simon

it just feels like i'm on the outside somehow. not all the time, just sometimes. but yeah, i feel irrelevant and i hate that

You may actually be the only person who gets more than 140 characters from me. That's kind of awesome, right?

He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to.

The closest thing I've ever had to a journal is probably you.

It's just a lot of me. Way too much of me.

Really, though, there are only two kinds of weather: hoodie weather and weather where you wear a hoodie anyway.

Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.

People are shameless when it comes to cake. It's

I'm too busy trying not to be in love with someone who isn't real.

Babies here are forced to declare their allegiance to vegetables before

What's a dementor?"
I mean, I can't even. "Nora, you are no longer my sister."
"So it's some Harry Potter thing," she says.

I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in you masculinity isn't the same as being straight.

Sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me.

stuffing my face with fun-size Kit Kats. Which, for the record, are way less fun than full-size Kit Kats. I

Is that a space?
No, it's a hydrant.

Wow, is that Katniss making out with Yoda?

I like no endings. I like things that don't end.

I feel irrelevant. I hate that.

If it is a glance about me, I will die. We are amused by the sad chubby girl who is clearly enchanted by our hipster beauty.

I'm glad I was cute and grammatical. I think you're cute and grammatical, too.

They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It's like nothing about me is allowed to change.

Honestly, the secret to impressing people is this: individual portions, packaged in mason jars. I

Anyway, thanks for saving my butt. Literally." She shakes her head. "Okay, not my butt." I giggle. "It's okay." "Thanks for saving my labia.

I want to know what it feels like to have crushes that could conceivably maybe one day turn into boyfriends.

People really are like house with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it's a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.

White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default.

I mean, that's how it's going to be. It's that easy for Olivia. Maybe this is what life is like for most girls.

I'm on the toilet at the 9:30 Club and I'm wondering how mermaids pee.

Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won't shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds off exhausted?

I think, for me, listening to music is a very solitary thing. Or maybe that's just something people say when they're too lame to go to live shows.

It's stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing.

There are some socks that shouldn't be washed by your mom.

And it's almost too perfect. Almost too Disney.