If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

The only love she inspires is the canine kind.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.