“When he saw Tyler, his face went serious, which struck me as comical. Andy had always been protective, but when it came to me having anything to do with guys, he felt it was his duty to inform and ...”

“[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.”

“I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.”

“I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples, far out at sea.They just...”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!”

“Im a starving child trying to stuff my stomach, gorging my senses on the decadence of these moments as if Ill wake up in the morning and realize Im still sweeping cinders for my stepmother.But then...”

“But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”