Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.