“Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.”

“The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.”

“She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were. ”

“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”

“You just have to let people love you in the way they can”

“There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.”

“There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn't work the way you or most other people thought it did.”