Hey,' he said. It came out hard and frustrated. 'I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.' She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. 'It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.

It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.

You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.

You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just … bleak?

...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.