- "This is for ... refusing to believe in miracles because miracles are the impossible coming true and everything is possible." -- Say Yes
- "Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting." -- Maybe I Need You
- "Today I cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow a cup of sugar." -- Maybe I Need You
- "Stay. There are snowflakes on my tongue I want to melt on your inner thigh." -- Stay
- "Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys." -- Stay
- "Sing me lullabies at dawn when I've been up all night painting the wind to remind myself that things are moving. We were talking mountains and snowboards when you said, 'I'll teach you how to fall.' I said, 'I bet you will.'" -- Stay
- "On street corners in New Orleans, you can find music in places when you cannot find air." -- Stay
- "So I call 'ugly' a four-letter word and tell you I am tired of hearing myself swear." -- Stay
- "I said, 'Your lips, they're like whale blubber.' That wasn't my best line, but it worked." -- How It Ends
- "Maybe tomorrow, my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill." -- How It Ends
- "My firefly heart is still in your glass jar." -- How It Ends
- "I'm no easy catch. Can you really see me in fish nets? No. I always find myself slipping out the holes." -- Wasabi
- "If there's one thing in this world I've ever known for sure, it's that this girl is gonna crush me like a small bug." -- Wasabi
- "But hey, you like peanut butter and I like you." -- Wasabi
- "You are a dream. We are a nightmare sometimes, but if you wake up crying I'll be there to hold you." -- Love Poem
- "Now ask me what I am. I will tell you 'All of the above and nothing that they ever listed.' I have never cared to be as much as I wanted to become." -- The Jewelry Store
- "I want to know what the kite called itself when it got away." -- The Jewelry Store
- "I don't know the words to the song you were born to sing, but I know your fingers will bleed when you play the chords, and maybe you'll need me then like I need you now." -- Yarn
- "I am missing you most in the silence between songs on my favorite record." -- Yarn
- "In your arms, I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together." -- Yarn
- "If I ever have my own team, I am picking everyone first, even the worst kids." -- A Letter to the Playground Bully from Andrea Age Eight and a Half
- "Jesus turns water into his wine, so even God has his bad days." -- (Ditto)
- "I started asking the sun about the Big Bang. The sun said, 'It hurts to become.'" -- I Sing the Body Electric, Especially When My Power's Out
- "Some days, I call my arms wings." -- (Ditto)
- "Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun." -- (Ditto)
- "This is my body. It is no one's but mine." -- (Ditto)
- "Is there yellow tape in your top dresser drawer for those nights when your true love's kiss is an anthem to a dead country?" -- Trellis
- "Even if I could, I wouldn't take my silence back. My father owned a gun. He would have blown that man apart." -- Trellis
- "My lover's next love is a sword I keep falling on. I think too much when I kiss."
- "Okay, listen. I know it's not appealing to make out with someone who has so constantly got their foot in their mouth."
- "I want to make popcorn with you with the lid off. Yes, that's dirty talk."
- "We didn't wonder if we'd grow up and be happy." -- The Vinegar Club
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