Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake.

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.

But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.