Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.