Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

"What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back."

"Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.-Annik Marchand"

"Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace."

"How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most."

"Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead."

"You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right."

"When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word."

"She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous."

"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."