“A week feels like a year when youre seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched me...”

“When you meet an extraordinary person, its like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people ...”

“Every person comes with a place. It can be a house, a park, a building. When you meet someone, you are unknowingly meeting a place, a two-for-one deal that neither party is really aware of yet. Reg...”

“This is just the way life is sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful, all the time confusing and frightening and exhilarating and we just have to deal with it. Thatswhat freedom is.”

“In the end, there wasnt a right thing to say, only a right thing to do. So I sat further up on the bed and put my hand on Manuelles cheek and our mouths did the rest, finding each other even though...”

“I wanted to tell him then how loneliness can become a tangible thing, after a while. Its something that you carry with you on your shoulder, hold up like a friend with a twisted ankle. It sits with...”

“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.”

“Today is yesterday, today is tomorrow. For it's only one day that comes and goes, over and over again.”

“They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me.”

“I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well.”