“Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give”
“Maybe they were back to not talking. That's what she missed the most: talking. Serious, silly, bone-deep, flippant, all their words and thoughts like gifts to each other, the only gifts they, with their hobbled hearts, could give.”
“That is when I realize that I have the same gift he does: We can give each other back our youth.”
“The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me.”
“Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back”
“You are the gift that only you would have to give.”