I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley