Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

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

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?