“I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says.“I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs.For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.”

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

“That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

“Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck”

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

“But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?”