Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

- "Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" - "It's the girl world in my head, where I go when I'm annoyed with Carter, or just men in general. There are five shoe stores per capita, nothing has any calories, and all the books and movies end happy ever after." - "I like Amazonia. When do we leave?

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.