“But like everything else, love changed.”

“Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.”

“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”

“Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“when life gives you lemons, say, "yeah I like lemons, what else ya got"?”

“I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.”