“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”

“Things couldn't end if she didn't let them begin.”

“If they failed the project - when they failed the project - the book would give her one last excuse to see him. To tell him everything, she thought, letting her eyes slide closed. Everything she should have said already. She'd spit it all out, regardless of who was around to hear it. She'd tell him how she couldn't stop thinking about him, how she just wanted to be near him. She'd do the unspeakable. She'd let her hands slide inside his jacket and her arms slip around him.”

“Society and personal integrity erode one small sin at a time. The most dangerous things are the little "inconsequential" slips that we let slide every day.”

“She looked so cute wen she was apologizing that Helen couldn't even pick up a grudge, let alone carry one.”

“Don’t give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!”