“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...”

“People arent always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You cant just meet someone and expect them to be everything yo...”

“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 ...”

“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.”