“He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.”

“It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.”

“If everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos.”

“If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.”

“All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken on the world’s hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?”

“I will hold your hand and we will walk across this world, and I will sing to you and our babies, and that will be enough for me.”

“Nick was chocolate and cigarettes and whiskey and danger, and everything I should stay away from.”