“But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the t...”

“words do matter. Theyre not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldnt start revolutions and they wouldnt change history and they wouldnt be the things that you think about every night bef...”

“I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.”

“as if all the years haven't dulled that moment. She's staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son.”

“I love lying here with you, under the books.”

“That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”