“Flirting with love can do that." Vega wasn't ready to admit to such a problematic emotion.”

“Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet.”

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

“But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.''Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.”

“You know you love someone when he makes all the ordinary moments feel extraordinary. When doing absolutely nothing feels like everything. Gray assumed he wasn't enough. And what I didn't admit, what I didn't realize at the time, is that it's just the opposite. He was too much, That kind of love is the kind that traps you. And I'm not ready for it yet.”

“You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume.”