Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.