"The List was born six years ago as an act of rebellion on my eighteenth birthday... If it sounded fun and I thought it would be impossible to do with a family to worry about, it went on The List" (Jacobson 10).
"... I felt marked. The kiss practically shouted that Matt had staked his claim" (Jacobson 149)
"I had earned a good conversation with a great friend. How could Matt Gibson be dangerous?" (Jacobson 170).
""Then kissing definitely means something to him, and that must mean that you mean something to him too'" (Jacobson 182).
"'That too, but then there's all the stuff that responsible adults don't do when they have families that are no big deal when they are single'" (Jacobson 223).
"'You're worth it,' he said. I didn't know how to respond, so I said nothing at all, but the way his words wormed their way dangerously close to my heart spoke volumes" (Jacobson 233).
"'I try to give you all the room you ask for, but the truth is, I'm a strings kind of guy. This is hard'" (Jacobson 244).
"As much as I resisted those little rabbit trails my brain wanted to follow, I ended up thinking about Matt several times a day. Where that used to cause a giddy flutter, now I felt hollow" (Jacobson 264).
"This is worth giving up the last of your goals. Two inches forward and you can have Matt forever" (Jacobson 275).
"'I know better than to think anyone can be talked in or out of love'" (Jacobson 280).
"'I don't want The List anymore. I want you'" (Jacobson 288).