Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.