When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?

Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.