Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper

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

She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

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

I like that you let yourself be surprised

There are some people who fall in love over and over.