Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.