“It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.”

“After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.”

“Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.”

“He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”