it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

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

Maybe we should go on lots of double dates,” Cath said, “and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time.” “Pfft,” Levi said, “I’m picking out my own dress.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said.

Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen—because you love each other.

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.