J'adore! I'm a sucker for boarding school stories, France, and romantic comedies, and this is a winner in all categories. It really captured the culture shock of living abroad (as well as the reverse culture shock of coming home). 
 Favorite quotes: 
 "Did you just have a foodgasm?" 
 Some people are finicky about going to the theater alone, but I'm not. Because when the lights go down, the only relationship left in the room is the one between the movie and me. 
 I understand why the French are famous for their cuisine. Meals here are savored. Restaurant dinners are measured in hours, not minutes. It's so different from America. Parisians swing by the markets every day for the ripest fruit and vegetables, and they frequent specialty shops for cheese, fish, meat, poultry, and wine. And cake. 
 I'm jittery. It's like the animatronic band from Chuck E. Cheese is throwing a jamboree in my stomach. I've always hated Chuck E. Cheese. Why am I thinking about Chuck E. Cheese? 
 And for the first time since coming home, I'm completely happy. It's strange. Home. How I could wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different. But that's not quite right either. I miss Paris, but it's not home. It's more like . . . I miss this. This warmth over the telephone. Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? 
 His name coats my tongue like melting chocolate. 
 I check my reflection. My eyes are puffy and red, and my hair looks like an owl pellet. 
 I've spent my entire senior year suffocating between lust and heartache, ecstasy and betrayal, and it's only getting harder to see the truth. How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's--be pulled and stretched and twisted--before they snap? Before they can never be mended again? 
 But I was too scared to mess with the relationship we might have, to deal with what we really did have. 
 "The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you." --from the movie Lost in Translation