Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

Love is tied to truth.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.