I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.

She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .