Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.

I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.