“A dolgok sose úgy történnek, ahogy elképzelem őket.”

“A dolgok nem úgy alakultak, ahogy kellett volna, de mit tehet az ember? Úgy kell fogadnunk az életet, ahogy jön, és amennyire lehet, ki kell hoznunk belőle a legjobbat.”

“There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.”

“I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band."Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.”

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

“I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.”

“Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”