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“I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“They looked for one another when nothing else was happening, the way you pick up a magazine or look in the cupboard for a snack. Not exactly by accident and not exactly on purpose. You could go out in the world and do new things and meet new people, and then you could come home and just sit on the stoop with someone you had never not known, and watch lightning bugs blink on and off.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry eyes. She wore some kind of a fuzzy lavender pullover, and when she crossed her legs and lifted her guitar onto her lap, she had an interesting way of tucking the foot of the bottom leg back under her chair that made Hector feel melty. He looked away in self-preservation.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“He was thinking that maybe love was like starting a fire with two sticks. You've always heard that it's possible, but how likely is it?”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn’t even know it, or it wouldn’t matter.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“This was the danger of sharing your dreams with your parents. If you told them you wanted to learn to play the guitar, all they heard you say was, “I want to learn to play the guitar,â€� and then they found some practical, convenient, cheap way, often involving a church basement, for you to do it. But Hector had not come up with any plan of his own. And owning a guitar seemed like an important stepping stone on the way to being a guitar player. So he pawned his soul and said he would take the lessons from the Presbyterian youth minister. What the hell, he thought. Or heck, he thought. What the heck.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had nothing to do with the kind of person he might actually be.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Debbie wondered if it was true that there was only one person in the world for every person, and if she had already met him, and she either had to find a way to be around him again someday or always be alone. Romance-wise. She didn't quite believe this. What seemed more likely was that there were at least five or six people scattered around the globe who you could bump into and, wham, it would be the right thing.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll just always be alone. But I think if I knew someone was going to fall in love with me when I'm fifty-three or something, I think I could wait. Maybe. If I knew it would at least happen.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Maybe it was another time that their moments would meet. Maybe it would happen in a few days, or next week. Maybe it would happen when they were fifty.
But just now they had missed, and the jet trails of the crisscrossing moments left an awkward vacuum in their wake. They both felt it, though they didn't know what it was, and when they tried to guess, they both got it wrong.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Why did she think something good could happen to her?
But then something did. Something good and mysterious. It's hard to explain why, but she started to laugh. She laughed at her fierce naked self, frowning into the mirror. And she liked the girl who was laughing.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“I'm a hunk in my soul," he said.
"A hunk of what?" said Lenny.
"Fried dough," said Hector. "Smothered in sugar.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots. Sometimes leaving holes big enough to see through, or even step through, to somewhere else.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie’s don’t-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross