“I love you. I love you all the way.”

“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”

“Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.”

“I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again”

“I couldn't say, "I lost the best thing that ever happened to me." Wasn't that punishment enough?”

“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”

“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.”

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

“It's all talk til it's all real walk.”

“Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.”