There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.