“I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, but now that I do, I can't stop thinking about you.”
“I think you're actually the prince because you rescued me from myself.”
“You not watching the road is making me a little jumpy.” “No, I think city boy is scared of the woods.” She gave a quick laugh before saying, “Granny once told me she saw the devil out there. Pitchfork and all.” “Well, if I was scared, that wouldn’t help.”
“The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he was doing something. The world provided resistance, and as we struggled through, we learned our final lessons.”
“Maybe I just left it too late, and things changed too much for us to go back to where we were.”
“Unrequited love is like buying a dress that you can’t fit into but you promise yourself you’ll diet for—you can’t think about the dress, only about the fact that your body is too big for it.”