“It's hard to give up the being together with someone.”

“Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.”

“But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.”

“...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.”

“We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.”

“I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....”

“When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when others cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you ...”

“The difference between your friend and your best friend is that your friend asks, Are you are ok? and your best friend asks, Do you want to talk about it?”

“That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.”

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youre falling to the floor crying ...”

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”