“Do you want this to be a love story?”

“I like you," he said.He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important.He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have...”

“Parents don't know their children at all.No one knows anyone, in fact.”

“Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. Im afraid. More afraid than youd ever believe. And hed take her hand and theyd fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double...”

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

“...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in yo...”