“She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.”

“He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.”

“I always search for her; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.”

“It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.”

“The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.”

“Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back.She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better”

“she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.”