“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. ”

“Unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgave her for forgetting me”

“I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.”

“It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.”

“I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.”