To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.