“Or was he the romantic fiction of a girl who'd been desperate for a handsome stranger to come along?”

“He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.”

“I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.”

“But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.”

“She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.”

“He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.”

“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”