How do you feel when I smile at you?" he asked - and then he did smile at her, just a little. Not like myself, Cath thought. "Like an idiot," she said softly. "And I never want it to stop.

I think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly. "You don't even know-" "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.

(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)