“These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.”

“everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.”

“We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.”

“hubris, n.Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.”

“Now I read the updates on her online profile and she read mine, and that's what we were to each other.”

“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”

“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don'tsee each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy”