“As a child, shed always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didnt ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught ...”

“It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely elsepi...”

“...one had to expect very littlealmost nothingfrom life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days like some maniac of living, but to give oneself up, be seized by the...”

“Though shed begun to get a bit fat that winter, it was in February, around when her father found a toy poodle (sitting there, in the side yard, watchful and waiting as a person), and adopted it, th...”

“I won, said Chelseas dad, and went to give Chelsea a high-five, but missed, as they were standing too close.My fault, he said. That was my fault.Oh, Chelsea said.And he stepped back a little and tr...”

“Garret went across the street to the library. There was a hole in the sidewalk the size of a bathtub. Construction was being done, was always being done. It was the journey that mattered, Garret th...”

“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last...”

“The world is quiet here.”

“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”