But like everything else, love changed.

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)