“Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.”

“That’s the way these things work, kiddo,” he says. “Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.”

“Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”

“But Hadley understood. It wasn't that she was meant to read them all. Maybe someday she would, but for now, it was more the gesture itself. He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their daughters houses.”

“pg 29 their brief relationship now strikes her as the most obvious mistake in the worl”

“No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”

“There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own.”