“A veces casi conseguir lo que quieres es peor que ni siquiera estar cerca.”

“La Dra. Briggs siempre decía que si me iba de un lugar tendría que llegar a otro, y el dolor me seguiría dondequiera que fuera. —¿Es mejor quedarse y enfrentarse a él, entonces, después de todo?”

“But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.”

“We'd both been pushing at the walls of our secret world, pushing at each other. We'd give each other everything we could.”

“Sometimes, almost getting what you want is worse than never coming close.”

“Believe me," he said, pointing his finger at me like a gun, "no good comes from lying about what you really want.”

“Like I told you on Thanksgiving, pretending is a lousy way to get through life.”