<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

So this girl, let's call her Beth, and I have been pretty good friends for a year or so. We met at a school dance, I integrated into her friend groups along with a couple of other guys I know, and we both share similar interests and get along well in general. 

The only problem I find is that it can be really difficult to talk or start conversations with Beth, and even to just maintain them, because she almost always maintains a sarcastic, cynical front which she uses to address absolutely everyone.

This ranges from sarcastic comments to straight up put-downs, and even though they're done in jest, it's sorta difficult to get past them and defuse the situation to any satisfactory level. 

While I'm normally pretty good at handling conversations and breaking through general sarcastic quips and stuff from other people, I don't really know how to handle this, and it's making it difficult to build any sort of intimacy.
<bot>: My friend who I'm romanctically interested in is really sarcastic and snarky, I can't cut through this in conversations, and it's making it difficult to go anywhere romantically.