“I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.”

“I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.”

“I think we carry home on our backs.”

“The universe gets more disorderly all the time.”

“So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.”

“We don't know where Millie went, and we don't know if we'll see her again, but there's no reason not to hope. We don't know the answers, and maybe that's a nice thing.”

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

“I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.”

“I think we carry home on our backs.”

“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”