If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.