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.

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

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.