"And you’re beautiful. You’d have to work pretty hard to mess that up."
- Jennifer Echols
"You're a beautiful girl If you show the slightest interest in Alec, he'll want to go out with you. I know I would."
"Deana Carter sings about it. Lady Antebellum sings about it. Eric Church. Gosh, not just country artists. Katy Perry. Everybody has a song about it because everybody's been through it. You find that p..."
"It’s going to be a pretty day to fly."
"Oh, God," Lori said without looking at me, "what are they thinking, leaving the two of us alone out here on the dock together? We might TALK or something.""That would be awful," I said. "I might give ..."
"A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart."Awwwww!" said the crowd."Upside down," said Sean.The heart was, indeed, upside down. It grew and grew, upside down, unt..."
"Your confidence in me is heartwarming.Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin."
"Adam ” Lori called loudly enough for me to hear her but not so loud that her voice would carry up to my mom in the marina office- or to her dad who might be listening from their screened porch facing ..."
"Let's go," I said."Go where?""On Lori's date with Parker."Now he looked at me over the nerdy spectacles he wore for reading."I wasn't aware it was a double date. And you're not my type."
"Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me.""Woof," I said."