Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered and he looks a bit crestfallen when I say no. "It's because they don't have coverage out here," Griggs tells him. "No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.