“Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.”
“And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”
“It was like one of those dreams where you can’t move your feet as fast as you want to, or one leg is longer than the other. I’ve had lots of those.”
“I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.”
“Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.”
“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”