You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.

Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.