“i don't want to be the only good thing in the world.”

“This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.”

“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him.""Why?""Because I wanted to be with you.”

“My memory is good for some things and not others.”

“Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.”