“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”

“Everything is in itsright place, and my heart wants to believe this can always be true. My heart wants tomake it true, even as something darker tugs it away.”

“I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all”

“We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

“I love you,” she says.“I love you,” I say.And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that.I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.”

“I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.”

“It is not desire.Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with himconstantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.”