Friendship Quotes in If I Stay

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #1

Maybe it was because we were too alike. (7.22)

Many people who are too alike start off as enemies before becoming friends, but sometimes they start off as friends and become enemies, like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.

Quote #2

I was caught off guard by how intensely I already hated her. (7.25)

The road to friendship with Kim is a rough one. Perhaps both girls recognize in the other traits they don't like about themselves?

Quote #3

When we got older, we liked to joke that we were so glad we had that fistfight. […] When else were two girls like us going to come to blows? (7.32)

Like good friends, Mia and Kim are able to look back at this embarrassing moment in their lives and laugh about it. (Seriously, though—a fistfight? Is that how the young 'uns are finding friends these days?)