“You said I was your number-one pick.""And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.”

“Pick a number between one to ten. Now, pick the number that you think I picked you to pick.
”

“Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.”

“I though you said it was easy, listening to your heart. I thought you said I'd be okay. So why am I breaking apart.”

“Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.”

“You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.”