Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.