Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.