“Already there was black rain inside me.”

“Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.”

“I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy.”

“You have that syndrome that chronically sick kids get, like overdeveloped conscience syndrome," she announced."You made that up."Juliet laughed. "I did. You have it though. You always feel like you're inconveniencing somebody.""I am always inconveniencing somebody. I'm an inconvenient person.""But you're not. We didn't ask to be born this way, Allie. The world owes you one. Not the other way around.”

“I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.”

“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.”

“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”