Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.