“Airports are torture chambers if you're claustrophobic.”

“People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”

“Because the truth is that now that he’s here, she can’t imagine it any other way. Now that he’s here, she worries that crossing an entire ocean with someone between them might be something like torture.”

“I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while waiting. You're just sort of suspended.”

“What are you really studying?"He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of love at first sight.""Very funny," she says. "What is it really?""I'm serious.""I don't believe you."He laughs, then lowers his mouth so that it's close to her ear. "People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely too fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”

“You're not the only one who copes by imagining things.”

“This house is about two dictionaries away from caving in,' she'd say, 'and you're buying duplicates?”