“Spence, he says as he lifts his brown eyes to meet mine. You still make it hard to breathe. And you, I say, swallowing as I try to rein in my overeager heart, are still the same old charmer you alw...”

“Those ties...those ties are forever, and I never wanted to be connected to any other person so permanently. Forever was always meant for you and me, Spence.”

“I want the strings. I want the ball and fucking chain. I want to be so tied to you that you cant ever slip away from me again.”

“Tear filled eyes glisten in the firelight. Shes so fucking beautiful that it hurts to look at her, but its an ache I hope to feel for as long as I live, because the pain of losing her again...that ...”

“Hes so fucking unconventionally perfect. I dont know whether I want to kick him in the balls or lick his face.”

“I want to rip the rest of those buttons open and climb him like a monkey in a banana tree. Oh God, what I would do with his banana...”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave,...”

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

“1. I think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt lif...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”