“The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her?”

“Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.”

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong with the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

“This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.”

“Is it really worth dying for the person you love?”[Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. “That’s not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her?”

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”