“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy, Wren said. Its the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”

“She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?”

“I dont trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am theyre going to get tired of me and take off.”

“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”

“When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out.Im such an idiot, he said.Cath fell between...”

“Emergency dance party--go away.”

“You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?”

“He turned around, suddenly concerned. "Are you pregnant? Are you gay? I'd rather you were gay than pregnant. Unless you're pregnant. Then we'll deal. Whatever it is, we'll deal. Are you pregnant?”

“Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am ...”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”