It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.