“I grew exuberant in body but with a nervy, craving mind.It was wanting something more, something tangible. It sought for reality intensely, always as if it wasn't there..... but you see at once what I do.I climb”

“It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.”

“You're unbelievable.""Thank you.""That wasn't a compliment!""I know you didn't mean it as one, Juliet, but when you think about it, what could be more glorious than to be too much, too out of the ordinary, to be believed?”

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”

“There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal....”

“We broke something, I think it was traction…”

“Uncomfortable.Lord. I’ve been doing the comfortable thing my whole life, it seems like. And what did it get me? I think it’s about time I did something a little uncomfortable.”