Favorite Lines

What are some of your favorite lines from the first section?
(PLEASE respond as a COMMENT -- Let's save posts for my prompts and your own original thoughts about the novel.)

Some of mine are:


"And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be" (2).

"'Do you always think this much, Charlie?'
'Is that bad?' I just wanted someone to tell me the truth.
'Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.'
'Is that bad?'
'Yes'" (24).

"'Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve'" (24).

"And finally he found this really amazing song about this boy, and we all got quiet.
Sam tapped her hand on the steering wheel. Patrick held his hand outside the car and made air waves. And I just sat between them. After the song finished, I said something.
'I feel infinite.'
And Sam and Patrick looked at me like I said the greatest thing they ever heard. Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. I have since bought the record, and I would tell you what it was, but truthfully, it's not the same unless you're driving to your first real party, and you're sitting in the middle seat of a pickup with two nice people when it starts to rain" (33).

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite" (39).