“You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.”

“Tell me a way you think this can work.""We'll find a way," I tell her."That's not an answer. It's a hope.""Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.”

“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”

“I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.”

“Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.”

“This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.”

“If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.”